CAPA Live: aviation sustainability session highlights, 14-Sep-2021
On 14-Sep-2021 CAPA Live broadcast a wide range of discussions and interviews with industry figures. Here we provide a small selection of highlights from some of these session, including:
- VivaAerobus, CEO, Juan Carlos Zuazua
- CAPA Chairman's Update
- IATA SVP Sustainability and Environment, Sebastian MIkosz
- Eurocontrol Director General Eamonn Brennan
- CAPA-Envest presentation on CAPA's Sustainability report
- CEO Etihad, Tony Douglas Group
- President and CEO WestJet, Ed Sims
- Air New Zealand Chief Operational Integrity and Safety Officer, Capt. David Morgan
- President & CEO Bangkok Airways, Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth
- VivaAerobus is recognized as Mexico's greenest airline due to its young fleet and low CO2 emissions.
- The aviation industry faces the challenge of high carbon prices and evolving carbon offset prices.
- IATA emphasizes the importance of sustainability and environmental initiatives in the aviation sector.
- Eurocontrol discusses the current state of European aviation and its environmental impact.
- CAPA and Envest highlight the existential threat to aviation posed by environmental issues.
- Airline CEOs from Etihad, WestJet, Air New Zealand, and Bangkok Airways share their perspectives on sustainability efforts and the need for decarbonization in the industry.
In this short report we're pleased to offer some clips from the long form presentations and interviews broadcast on CAPA Live on Sep-14-2021.
Airline CEO Interview with VivaAerobus, CEO, Juan Carlos Zuazua
"Two or three years ago we launched our environmental pledge. By far we're Mexico's greenest airline. Because running a true ULCC business model like ours, with very young fleet, the new generation and new technology. We have the lowest COO emission by passenger-kilometre or passenger-mile or whatever measure you want to make it."
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Chairman's Update
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: IATA Perspective
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: European Aviation with Eurocontrol DG Eamonn Brennan
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Aviation's existential threat is not COVID - it's the environment: CAPA & Envest
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Tony Douglas Group CEO Etihad
Network Planning was almost like an annual cycle as part of next year's budget. Even pre-pandemic for Etihad every three or four weeks we'd do a big deep dive in terms of adjustments to our network. It's almost a daily dynamic activity right now. The 56 or so destinations we fly into, one might have been on a red list yesterday and is on the green list today, and somewhere else might have been green yesterday and is now red.
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Ed Sims President and CEO WestJet
One of the key lessons that's come out of COVID for me is that airlines like WestJet can become too dependent on commercial passenger traffic and not develop more ancillary revenue streams, whether that's through the rewards and frequent flyer programmes or whether that's through areas like cargo.
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Air New Zealand's Chief Operational Integrity and Safety Officer, Capt. David Morgan talks sustainability efforts
As far as Air New Zealand is concerned, we see sustainability as a clear platform in our strategy. And the reason for that is because the clock is ticking. The industry has got commitments to live up to and to deliver, and as long as we prevaricate and delay, we're not going to, as an industry, solve the problem that we have to solve. Fundamentally, for us, it's about decarbonisation. And decarbonisation is largely achieved by two things. One is zero emissions aircraft and the other is a sustainable aviation fuel supply chain and production."
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CAPA Live September 2021 Highlight: Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth President & CEO Bangkok Airways
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