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Contrail Controller Series: Meet Southwest Airlines – Collaborating to Combat Contrails
We are pleased to feature Southwest Airlines (“Southwest”) as our next Contrail Controller. Southwest is taking a multi-faceted approach to integrating sustainability into their operations. As part...
Contrail Coverage Over the U.S. Reduced 20% in 2020
Researchers at MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, with the support of NASA, have successfully demonstrated contrail mapping can be done at a large continental scale. 1 By comparing...
Google Teams Up with American Airlines to Create Contrail Avoidance Routes
American Airlines has completed its first set of contrail avoidance flights, and the results are promising. American pilots flew 70 test flights over six months using Breakthrough Energy’s...
SATAVIA: A Vision to Eliminate 2% of Human Climate Impact by Preventing the Formation of Warming Aircraft Contrails
SATAVIA developed a tech platform that integrates weather prediction modeling, earth observation data from satellites, and global asset tracking to provide atmospheric data that airlines can use to...
Using Sustainable Aviation Fuels to Reduce Contrails
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is renewable or waste-derived fuel that reduces CO2 and non-CO2 emissions. SAFs can be made from used oils, dedicated crops, or by capturing carbon dioxide from the...