Bringing geographies, cultures and economies together with its flights to more than 300 destinations on five different continents, Turkish Airlines continues to spread its wings for the future of our world. Global brand; It prevented tens of thousands of trees from being cut down and polluted hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of water in 2021 with its sustainability activities in four focal points: human, world, development and management function.
Struggling with the environmental problems faced by the world in every field it operates, from air cargo to catering services, aircraft maintenance and airport ground handling services, the company has recently started its environmentally friendly flights and used sustainable aviation fuel in the Istanbul - Paris flight it organized on February 2, 2022. The flag carrier plans to expand the use of environmentally friendly fuel, which it continues on its Paris, Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, London and Stockholm lines, to different destinations with increasing frequencies once a week.
Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bolat about environmental operations; “As Turkish Airlines, we are the airline that flies to the most countries in the world with 128 countries, and every destination we fly to has its own unique values waiting to be discovered. Protecting the future of these geographies, which are uniquely beautiful with their natural assets, historical, economic or cultural values, is a very important issue for our Turkish Airlines family. While bringing more and more people to these beauties every day, we want to carry these precious works of our world to the future. In this context, we optimize all our operations with sustainable studies and protect our world for future generations. Turkish Airlines will continue to fly for the green of the earth in the blue of the sky.”
Aircraft Maintenance Hangar Converts Rainwater into Usable Water
Türk Hava Yolları Teknik A.Ş. is the most important aircraft maintenance and repair company in its region with its technical capabilities. promises a more environmentally friendly future with its renewed facilities. One of the company's service points and Turkey's largest aircraft maintenance facility under a single roof, Istanbul Airport C/D hangar stores rainwater and transforms it into usable water. Instead of taking water from the network line, the water collected and treated with the rainwater collection system is consumed at every point of the facility as utility and process water. In 2021, approximately 54 percent of the water use in the facility was met from rain water.
The company, which earned more than 2021 Billion Dollars in revenue from its activities in 1, made a significant contribution to Turkey's exports and prevented the pollution of 59 million 1 thousand liters of water, which is equivalent to the amount of use water of 474 thousand people, by treating the wastewater originating from these activities. In addition, the company; It prevented the cutting of 632 trees by recycling 6 tons of non-hazardous waste, and the pollution of 710 m700 of soil with the recycling of 39 tons of hazardous waste.
Turkish Cargo Carries Uganda's Economy to the Future
As the fastest growing brand of the global air cargo industry, Turkish Cargo supports projects that facilitate international trade in line with its sustainability strategy. The successful brand is making efforts for this country to develop and expand its exports by supporting the Uganda Project, which is among the country projects of The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation. Within the scope of the project, Turkish Cargo plans to contribute to the digitalization and capacity development of the air cargo industry in Uganda by providing training support to Ugandan personnel and sharing its operational experience.
TGS's Electric Vehicles Travel About 38 Thousand Kilometers Every Day
Turkish Ground Services (TGS), the ground handling company of Turkish Airlines, has 9 electric vehicles at 309 airports in Istanbul and Anatolia, and this number is increasing day by day. Electric vehicles of different qualities, from pushback vehicles that move airplanes to tractors for carrying luggage, contribute to TGS's environmentalist operations. When the daily operating times of the vehicles are calculated, it turns out that they travel approximately 38 thousand kilometers, which is close to the circumference of the world.
The company's environmental activities are not limited to electric vehicles. Working with the goal of zero waste in all business processes, the ground handling operator has separated 2021 tons of hazardous and 2 tons of non-hazardous waste only at the airports in Istanbul in 152, thereby preventing these wastes from mixing with nature.
Planes Provide Fuel Savings Equivalent to Planting 292K Trees in One Year
The most important gain in Turkish Airlines' environmentally friendly operations comes from fuel saving practices. By efficiently adapting processes such as single-engine taxiing procedures, route optimizations and flight center of gravity planning, 2021 tons of fuel was saved in 37 and 82 tons of carbon emissions were prevented from being released into the atmosphere. This fuel savings is equivalent to planting 116 thousand trees in a year, and 809 flights between Istanbul and New York by wide-body aircraft.
The flag carrier airline, which has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world, aims to increase its fuel economy by expanding its fleet with new generation aircraft.
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