London Heathrow Airport relaunches ‘Fly Quieter and Greener’ scheme, ranking airlines on noise and emissions performance
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Posted: 28 October 2024 | Gabriel Higgins | 1 comment
London Heathrow Airport has relaunched its ‘Fly Quieter and Greener’ scheme, ranking the top 50 airlines on noise and emissions to encourage improvements and provide transparency to stakeholders.
Credit: London Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) has relaunched its scheme of ranking airlines over their performances regarding noise and emissions. The scheme ‘Fly Quieter and Greener’, ranks among the largest 50 airlines at LHR on their performances, which incentivises improvements and gives neighbours and stakeholders transparent data.
Heathrow’s Chief Communication and Sustainability Officer, Nigel Milton, said: “Protecting the benefits of aviation while reducing our negative impacts needs to be a joint effort between airlines and the airport. Working with our airlines, we have already removed the loudest, most polluting aircraft from our runways, but we need to go further. Fly Quieter and Greener will help us continue to track the impact of airport operations, while letting everyone see the results for themselves”.
How are airline ranking positions and overall scores calculated?
The position of an airline in the league table is determined by the overall score figure. The higher the overall score, the better the position is in the league table
The overall score can be a number between 0 and 1000. The final score for each airline is calculated by adding up combinations of an airline’s ranking position for each individual metric. A weighting is then applied to each score. In order to get an overall score of 1000 an airline would have to be ranked #1 in all metrics across the board. Rank #1 indicates the best-performing airline across the 9 metrics for that particular quarter of the league table. The number of points deducted from the overall score depends on the weighting of individual metrics; for example, ranking #5 in Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) metric will mean more lost points than ranking #5 in Noise Certification metric due to higher weighting associated with the CDA metric (150%).
This quarter, the top five performing airlines are: SAS, KM Malta Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, SWISS and Austrian Airlines.
Heathrow was the first airport in the UK to introduce this type of league table back in 2013.
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Sadly, Heathrow’s relaunch of its Fly Quiet and Green programme does nothing to remedy the flaws in its predecessor.
Not only is the way the scores are produced far from transparent (and clearly doesn’t conform to Heathrow’s description of “How we calculate”), but the scheme fails to fulfil its primary purpose in that it’s not designed to show whether any aspect of a given airline’s Quiet/Green performance has improved or worsened quarter-on-quarter.