Kechipiri kubvira payakatanga chirongwa chayo chinotungamira muindasitiri yeEco-Skies, United Airlines yakapihwa zita reEco-Airline of the Year nemagazini yeAir Transport World (ATW).
Mubairo uyu unocherekedza kambani yendege mune yepasi rose yekutengesa ndege nekuda kwehutungamiriri hwayo hwezvakatipoteredza sezvakaratidzwa nekuenderana uye kunokanganisa kwezvakatipoteredza chiito mukati mekambani uye muindasitiri. Magazini iyi yakapa United rukudzo rwepamusoro muzvirongwa zvakawanda muna 2016 uye makore apfuura, kusanganisira kuve ndege yekutanga yeUS kutanga kushandisa mavhoriyamu ezvekufambiswa kwendege biofuel yekufamba nendege nguva dzose, zvichiratidza chiitiko chakakosha muindasitiri nekufamba kupfuura zviratidzo. uye bvunzo zvirongwa zvekushandisa yakaderera-kabhoni biofuel pamabasa anoenderera mberi.
"Kuvandudza uye kuenderera mberi injini mbiri dzinofambisa kufambira mberi kwedu sendege inokoshesa zvakatipoteredza pasi rose," akadaro Oscar Munoz, mukuru mukuru weUnited. "Kubva pakudyara mari mubiofuel kusvika pakuwedzera kushanda nesimba uye kuderedza marara kusvika pakutsigira musika mumwe chete wepasi rose wekuburitsa kabhoni, United yakazvipira kugadzira mhinduro dzatinotarisira kuti dzichava tarisiro yeindasitiri yedu, kwete izvo. Uye kunyange tichidada zvikuru mukuzivikanwa kunokosha kwekuedza kwedu, chiyero chekubudirira kwedu ipfungwa yevana vedu nevazukuru avo vanozotarisa shure pane zvatinoedza uye vachiti takararama maererano nemisungo yedu kwavari mukudzivirira pasi. zvizvarwa zvinotevera.”
Chirongwa cheUnited Eco-Skies chinomiririra kuzvipira kwekambani kune zvakatipoteredza uye zviito zvinotorwa zuva rega rega kugadzira ramangwana rakagadzikana. Pamusoro pekubatanidza biofuel inogadzika mukushanda kwayo paLos Angeles International Airport, United yazvino kubudirira kwezvakatipoteredza zvinosanganisira:
• 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.
• Kuva kambani yekutanga yendege yekuUnited States kutenga zvakare zvinhu kubva kune inotakura ndege yepasi rose premium cabin menity kits uye yakabatana neClean the World kupa zvigadzirwa zvehutsanana kune avo vanonyanya kushaiwa.
• 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.
Pamusoro pezvo, sechikamu chekuzvipira kweUnited kushanda nendege ine hushamwari uye ine mutoro, mutakuri akawedzera chiyero chekabhoni kune yayo 2017 Global Performance Commitment. United iri kuzvipira kuwana yakaderera gross gross footprint pane vakwikwidzi vayo vaviri vakuru vekuUS gore rino, sekuyerwa necarbon dioxide-yakaenzana pachigaro chiripo-mamaira. Kana United ikasazadzisa zvinangwa zve2017 Global Performance Commitment, iyo ndege inobhadhara anokodzera emakambani maakaundi.
