IATA enhances CO2 Connect emissions calculation tool

Airlines association IATA has enhanced its carbon emissions calculator to account for the increased use of alternative aviation fuels by carriers.

IATA’s CO2 Connect is one of many tools designed to measure emissions from flights. It provides operational data, such as aircraft type-specific fuel consumption, rather than the modelled averages used by some other calculation methodologies.

The latest improvement to CO2 Connect takes into account the use of alternative fuels, which the airline industry calls sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Initially, the per-passenger emissions reduction figure from the use of alternative fuel will be based on an airline’s total schedule, so every flight will “benefit from an equal percentage…