Flights to Santa’s winter wonderland in Lapland will be going green this year – as air traffic control company NATS plans to save more than 60 tonnes of fuel and more than 200 tonnes of CO2.
Neil Mills, procurement director of low-cost airline easyJet, has joined the board of NATS Holdings Ltd.
The first full month of winter schedules has shown a decrease in traffic volumes of nearly ten per cent compared to November last year.
Airlines used the switch to winter flight schedules last month to trim their services in response to the economic downturn, according to latest figures from NATS, the UK’s major air traffic management company.
NATS, the UK’s leading provider of air traffic services, is planning to cut in half the amount of CO2 emitted by aircraft waiting to land at the UK’s busiest airports.
Analysis continues of the feedback to the consultation by NATS, the UK’s leading air traffic management company, on proposals to redraw the aircraft route map across a large area of south-east England.
The number of flights in UK airspace has fallen for a third month with the latest figures, for September, showing a decrease of 2.1 per cent on last year.