Mo le taimi lona lua talu mai le tatalaina o lana alamanuia-taʻitaʻia polokalame Eco-Skies, United Airlines na faʻaigoaina o le Eco-Airline o le Tausaga e Air Transport World (ATW) mekasini.
O le faʻailoga faʻalauiloaina se vaʻalele i le lalolagi vaʻalele vaʻalele mo lona siʻosiʻomaga taʻitaʻia e pei ona faʻaalia e le faifai pea ma aʻafia aafiaga siosiomaga i totonu o le kamupani ma i le alamanuia. O le mekasini na tauaʻaoina United ma le maualuga faʻaaloalo mo le tele o fuafuaga i le 2016 ma tausaga ua tuanaʻi, e aofia ai le avea ma muamua US kamupani vaʻalele e amata faʻaaogaina aofaʻiga tele o le gafataulimaina vaʻalele biofuelu mo masani fuafuaina vaalele, faʻailogaina taua taua i le alamanuia e ala i le sopoʻia o tala atu o demonstrations ma suʻesuʻe polokalame i le faʻaogaina o meaola maualalo o le carbon biofuels mo le faʻaauauina o galuega.
"Fou ma le tumau lelei o masaga afi e unaʻia lo tatou alualu i luma o se sili ona siʻosiʻomaga malae vaʻalele vaalele i le lalolagi," o le tala lea a Oscar Munoz, United CEO pule. "Mai paionia inivesi i biofuels i le faʻateleina lelei ma faʻaititia le lapisi i le lagolagoina o se tasi lalolagi maketi faʻavae fua mo kaponi emisi, United ua tuuto i fou fofo tatou te faʻamoemoe o le a avea ma faʻamoemoega mo la tatou alamanuia, ae le o le tuʻusaunoa. Ma aʻo matou mitamita tele i lenei faʻatauaina taua mo a matou taumafaiga, o le fua o lo matou manuia o le manatu o a matou fanau ma fanau a fanau o le a toe tepa i tua ia matou taumafaiga ma fai mai na matou ola e tusa ai ma a matou tiute ia latou i le puipuia o le paneta mo tupulaga fai mai. ”
United's Eco-Skies program o loʻo fai ma sui o le kamupani i le siosiomaga ma gaioiga e faia i aso uma e fausia ai se lumanaʻi lumanaʻi. I se faʻaopopoga i le tuʻufaʻatasia o meaola gafataulimaina i ana faʻagaioiga i le malae vaʻalele faʻavaomalo a Los Angeles, o mea na ausia e Siosiomaga talu ai nei e aofia ai:
• Investing $30 million in U.S.-based alternative aviation fuels developer Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., which represented the single largest investment by any airline globally in alternative fuels.
• Avea ma uluaʻi kamupani vaʻalele a Amerika e toe faʻafou aitema mai i kamupani vaʻavaʻaia a le kamupani vaʻalele faʻavaomalo, ma galulue faʻapaʻaga ma le Clean the World e foaʻi oloa tumama ia i latou o loʻo manaʻomia tele.
• Partnering with the Federal Aviation Administration to demonstrate the potential benefits of new satellite-based technology for instrument landings that enable aircraft to use fuel more efficiently on arrival and land at normal rates in challenging weather.
• Continuing to replace its eligible ground equipment and service vehicles with cleaner, electrically powered alternatives, with 47 percent of the fleet converted to date.
• Becoming the first airline to fly with Boeing’s Split Scimitar winglets, which reduce fuel consumption by up to 2 percent; United is the largest Split Scimitar winglet customer today.
• Being the only U.S.-based airline named to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s “Leadership” category for its environmental disclosure, with an A- Climate score in 2016.
• Sourcing illy coffee’s internationally certified supply chain of farmers who earn above-market prices in exchange for meeting quality and sustainability standards for the finest coffee.
• Offering Eco-Skies CarbonChoice, the airline industry’s only integrated carbon offset program for corporate business travel and cargo shipments.
I se faʻaopopoga, o se vaega o le tautua a United i le faʻagaioia o se siosiomaga faʻauo ma le vaʻalele vaʻalele, o le vaʻaia na faʻaopopoina le carbon tulagavae fua i le 2017 Global Performance Commitment. United o loʻo taumafai e ausia le pito i lalo maualalo carbon tulagavae nai lo lona lua tele US-faʻavae tauva i lenei tausaga, pei ona fuaina e le carbon dioxide-tutusa i avanoa nofoa-maila. Afai e le ausia e United le manulauti o lana 2017 Global Performance Commitment, o le a totogi e le kamupani vaʻalele aitalafu faʻapisinisi agavaʻa.
