| The degradable tableware in the ground lounge, the light dinner plate handed out by the steward... Now, the passengers of China Eastern Airlines can participate in the green carbon reduction efforts from the ground to the air, covering the whole process of travel, and become witnesses and participants of China Eastern Airlines' sustainable flight. This is the message from China Eastern Airlines as the 34th National Energy Conservation Publicity Week approaches from May 13 to 19. The theme of this year's National Energy Conservation Publicity Week is "green transformation, energy conservation", in which the National Low Carbon Day is scheduled for May 15, and the theme of the activity is "green low carbon, beautiful China".
Degradable knife, fork, spoon and recyclable tableware on China Eastern Airlines flight
99 initiatives to implement the Sustainable Flight Action Guide
The sustainable development of a large airline, especially the sustainable flight around the main business of enterprise aviation, is not only limited to the air voyage, but is a comprehensive work of the whole process, all sectors and all fields, involving the overall flight operation, ground support, business services, passenger services, air cargo and other links, which is a huge systematic project.
In recent years, China Eastern Airlines has continued to innovate and explore, combing the sustainable measures of each node of flight operation and passenger service in an all-round way, forming a sustainable process in line with the actual situation of the enterprise, and forming and releasing China Eastern Airlines' Sustainable Flight Action Guide (referred to as the Guide). Focusing on flight support, the Guide comprehensively displays and expands the sustainable measures of the civil aviation industry from four dimensions of operation line, customer line, supply chain line and green corporate culture construction, including 15 links, 50 key nodes and 99 sustainable measures in total. On the basis of the Guide, China Eastern Airlines has integrated the concept of sustainability into daily flight operations, forming a set of replicable, promotable and expandable green flight comprehensive measures.
China Eastern Airlines' "Green Flight Overlook the East" theme flight focuses on the application of a series of sustainable measures and advocates passengers to jointly practice the concept of low-carbon travel
Aviation fuel is the main source of carbon emissions of civil aviation, and it is also the core link to implement the green concept and achieve sustainable flight. On May 27, 2023, China Eastern Airlines successfully completed the first commercial application of SAF with 15% sustainable aviation fuel SAF blended fuel on the flight MU2225 from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport. At the same time, these flights also actively introduce new energy vehicle applications, paperless passenger services, garbage classification and other measures.
The above flights are marked with "Made in China" SAF, which is refined and produced by Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd. using waste catering oil as raw material. The transformation from "kitchen waste to aviation fuel" has reduced the amount of waste and realized recycling.
According to statistics, up to now, China Eastern Airlines has launched 10 flights with the theme of "sustainable flight".
56 kinds of aircraft supplies were adjusted, and one-time non degradable plastic products were completely replaced for domestic passenger flights
With the issuance of the Civil Aviation Administration's Work Plan for Plastic Pollution Control in the Civil Aviation Industry (2021-2025) in May 2021, China Eastern Airlines will actively implement the policy requirements, take the lead in completing the material changes of 19 aircraft supplies among domestic airlines in October 2021, including disposable knife, fork, spoon, blanket, slippers, magazines, and the outer packaging bags of wet paper towels, and clarify that from January 1, 2022, All domestic (including regional) passenger flights actually carried by Shanghai Eastern Airlines shall strictly implement plastic restriction requirements and configuration specifications for the above aircraft supplies.
In April 2022, China Eastern Airlines will further expand the scope of capacity and plastic limit, define the use scenarios of machine supplies made of degradable materials on board, further increase the scope of machine supplies made of degradable materials to 28 types, and add simple toothware and candy bars, "China Eastern Airlines cup tea", cushion paper and other packaging.
Degradable paper cups on China Eastern Airlines flight
In July 2023, China Eastern Airlines will continue to expand the scope of degradable materials for aircraft supplies, add external packaging bags and internal materials for towels, various paper supplies, wash bags and other materials, and standardize the use scope and application scenarios of relevant aircraft supplies again.
At present, with reference to the principle of "full replacement of disposable non degradable plastic products" and the requirements for the scope of replacement in the civil aviation industry plastic restriction group standard "Specification for the Replacement of Disposable Non degradable Plastic Products for Domestic Departure Passenger Flights", China Eastern Airlines has comprehensively replaced disposable non degradable plastic products on domestic passenger flights, and gradually expanded the scope to international passenger flights.
China Eastern Airlines also actively promotes the concept of plastic restriction to be passed on to passengers and the public through flights——
China Eastern Airlines has added the report of degradable materials of aircraft supplies to the "Hundred Readings" online learning system of China Eastern Airlines' cabin. Cabin crew members can access relevant information at any time, strengthen the business training related to plastic restriction for flight attendants, and more intuitively demonstrate the sustainability of aircraft supplies, so that flight attendants can provide better answers and explanations when passengers ask, Introduce the concept of plastic restriction to the public. China Eastern Airlines also added the "Double J" logo on the package of related aircraft supplies to more prominently reflect the degradable materials, improve the recognition, and let passengers personally experience that they are participating in the cause of green environmental protection.
150 new energy civil aviation special vehicles were put into use, and the application of "green cargo station" was innovated again
While SAF is used and aircraft supplies are limited, China Eastern Airlines is focusing on green carbon reduction, and is working from ground to air in more and more dimensions.
In terms of flight operation, China Eastern Airlines is optimizing the flight height to the greatest extent, taking such refined fuel management and control measures as cutting corners and straightening, optimizing stands, optimizing taxiing routes, APU replacement, accurately estimating the weight of passengers' luggage, precise catering, optimizing the aircraft's center of gravity, etc., to improve the fuel efficiency of flights and spare no effort to reduce flight carbon emissions.
China Eastern Airlines new energy special vehicles, achieving full coverage of all series in the field of aviation ground special vehicles
On the apron, at present, China Eastern Airlines has widely used new energy vehicles to reduce carbon emissions on the ground, such as clean water vehicles, sewage vehicles, baggage loading and unloading vehicles, cargo loading and unloading vehicles and other ground vehicles to ensure Shanghai outbound flights.
New energy forklift produced by China Eastern Airlines
For example, not long ago, 150 new energy forklifts developed by China Eastern Airlines Equipment Co., Ltd. were put into use in the cargo station of China Eastern Airlines Logistics in Pudong West District, showing excellent performance and efficient operation capability in the face of the packages piled up in the logistics cargo station. The new energy forklift abandons the traditional engine and uses a 30kw motor drive, which completely eliminates the harmful gas emissions generated during operation, and realizes "zero emissions" and "zero pollution" during operation. Moreover, the vehicle battery is equipped with a constant temperature management system, which can complete rapid charging in only 30 minutes, significantly enhancing its continuous operation capability. This marks that China Eastern Airlines has made new achievements in the development of new energy civil aviation special vehicles in non apron application scenarios after apron vehicles.
More than 2000 passengers of China Eastern Airlines have participated in the sustainable green task of China Eastern Airlines
To attract the public to participate in the green cause is also the pursuit of China Eastern Airlines.
Focusing on passenger security, China Eastern Airlines actively guides passengers to self check in, explores measures to reduce passengers' queuing and gathering in peak hours, focuses on shortening passengers' boarding time, and ultimately makes the carbon footprint of flights weaker and weaker by improving the on-time rate of flights and ensuring efficient flight operation.
Taking the opportunity of the first sustainable flight on May 27, 2023, China Eastern Airlines has set up a "sustainable" zone on the official website of China Eastern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines APP, which is divided into three sections: "Introduction to China Eastern Airlines' Sustainable Measures", "Theme Flight Online Activities" and "Green Flight Experience", to guide passengers from "witnesses" to "participants" in green flight. In these network channels, China Eastern Airlines launched a "carbon emission calculator", which allows passengers to calculate the carbon emission value of individual flights by entering the information of departure, destination and class.
150 battery balanced forklift trucks were put into use in the cargo station of China Eastern Logistics Pudong West District
Relying on the above special zones, passengers of China Eastern Airlines can also participate in green tasks through the special zones, such as "on-demand dining", "onboard Wi Fi", "canceling checked baggage", "using electronic boarding passes", "air rail intermodal transport", "air bus intermodal transport", etc., to reduce personal carbon emissions; After completing the green task, passengers can obtain electronic medals and "Oriental Miles" points. At present, 2181 passengers of China Eastern Airlines have participated in the green mission.
The whole industry chain works hard to build green China Eastern Airlines in multiple dimensions
While the main aviation industry is "green flight", China Eastern Airlines is focusing on its entire industrial chain system to build green carbon reduction enterprises in multiple dimensions.
At present, the assets of China Eastern Airlines are increasing the use of new energy such as building photovoltaic in its entire business segment. The enterprise has set up Shanghai Yuan Building Research Institute, academic committee and scientific and technological innovation project review committee, formed the "academic+investment" review mechanism for new energy buildings, focused on the research of zero carbon buildings and light storage, direct and flexible projects, and promoted star certification of green buildings for more projects under construction. For completed projects, China Eastern Airlines Assets has increased its green operation, launched the project of China Eastern Airlines Binjiang Smart Building Management Platform, adopted information technology and centralized management mode, and implemented monitoring and data management on energy consumption of each construction project to tap energy saving potential.
China Eastern Airlines Assets actively promotes the application of green building related technologies in new projects. The picture shows the effect of the zero carbon building project in Shanghai Longhua Plot 4
It is worth mentioning that China Eastern Airlines Equipment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines Assets, not only inherits the historical origin of China Civil Aviation 102 Factory, the oldest ground equipment enterprise in civil aviation, but also actively develops and innovates. In recent years, it has created an increasingly perfect new energy civil aviation special vehicle product line, and has independently developed 14 categories and 26 models of new energy special vehicles, Achieve full coverage of all series in the field of aviation ground special vehicles.
Green China Eastern Airlines is embarking on a new journey of sustainable development in a huge and rich industrial dimension. |
