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Virgin
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Virgin Average Fleet Age: 3 Greenopia Environment Achievement:
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Efforts: Virgin is positioning itself as a green leader in air travel and its actions back up their claims. Since Virgin is relatively new, it has the most current fleet (various sources put its average fleet age at less than 5 years). This means that Virgin’s planes are very efficient in both fuel consumption and emissions. Virgin installs winglets on its planes which lead to better fuel efficiency (and therefore less emissions). Virgin has made progress with biofuels and has even done several flights with planes solely powered by biofuels. Virgin has a comprehensive recycling program and hopes to divert 50% of its waste by 2012. Many airlines have yet to add any environmental or ethically sourced food options, but Virgin has risen to the challenge and serves only fair trade coffee. Virgin offers passengers the ability to offset their carbon footprint when flying and the projects they source are good mostly revolving around green energy generation. Lastly, Virgin has solid environmental reporting on its website. Issues: Virgin does well in pretty much all of our categories. A few things we would like to see include additional fuel saving technologies (engine washing, one-engine taxiing, electric ground vehicles, etc.). We could not find any information the Virgin does any of these things. Virgin also does not have any LEED certified terminals or office buildings which is something a few other airlines do. Greenopia Verdict: Virgin deserves top honors on our green airline rankings because of its dedication to green initiatives. |
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