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Overall Rank: #4

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Jet Blue
Category: Brand Ratings -> Airline Companies -> Jet Blue

      Jet Blue

Average Fleet Age: 3.7

Greenopia Environment Achievement:

Fuel Conservation

Alternative Fuel Types

Recycling Programs


Green Food Option

Green Building Design

Carbon Offsets





Efforts:
JetBlue has the youngest fleet only to Virgin Atlantic coming in with an average of just under 4 years. Newer planes are often more efficient. Jet Blue uses a single engine to taxi which cuts down on fuel consumption and emission and even has a few organic food offerings on flights. Jet Blue offers carbon offsets when buying a ticket and utilizes processes such as methane recapture (good) and reforestation (not as good).

Issues:
JetBlue does not seem to widely use winglets on its planes, which are important to help reduce the planes’ footprint. Although it publishes an environmental report, it is a bit outdated (2006) and it says on the report it is supposed to be annual. We understand that environmental reporting is often a year behind (in order to compile data) but other companies released their 2007 report months ago. JetBlue, although it does incorporate some elements of green building design in its facilities, does not have any that are LEED certified.

Greenopia Verdict:
JetBlue is doing some impressive environmental things but it needs to improve its reporting and transparency in order to move up our rankings.



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