Arab carriers opt for SITA software to manage EU emissions trading
02 Jul 2009
Eleven member airlines of the Arab Air Carriers Org (AACO) will be the first users of SITA's new Aircraft Emissions Manager when the solution becomes available commercially in October, both AACO and SITA revealed yesterday at the ongoing Air Transport IT Summit in Cannes.
SITA, the air transport IT specialist, announced that it has developed and tested a scaleable global solution to comply with the European Union's Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS).
Four airlines from the Middle East, the United States and Europe are testing the Aircraft Emissions Manager, which will be the world's first Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) software tool to measure accurately carbon emissions from aircraft operators.
One test has been completed satisfactorily, and three more are due to commence, as airlines scramble to meet a deadline of 31 August 2009 to submit plans to the EU for monitoring and reporting carbon dioxide emissions.
By 31 August all airlines operating to, from and within the EU must submit their plan on how they will monitor and report carbon dioxide emissions to their assigned EU member state in advance of a pre-monitoring phase in 2010.
The effective cap-and-trade starts in 2012.
