SriLankan cuts fuel usage
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SriLankan Airlines is focusing on sharply reducing its fuel usage to counter the challenge posed by high global oil prices. A series of fuel-saving measures has already been implemented, while more are to be put in place within weeks.
S A Chandrasekera, the airline’s Chief Financial Officer, said, “The global airline industry is undergoing its biggest ever crisis due to the steep increases in the price of aviation fuel. Larger airlines are suffering losses and many smaller ones are going out of business. SriLankan is taking this challenge head on.”
SriLankan recently invited a team of experts in fuel efficiency from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), who conducted an in-depth study and recommended detailed measures. Besides the IATA recommendations, the airline has put in place a number of its own initiatives. The airline has already come up with several imaginative methods to reduce fuel consumption, and is quantifying the amount of savings from every one of them.
One of these is “RNAV Approaches”, where aircraft make continuous descent approaches into the airport which reportedly saves 100-200kg of fuel on every landing.
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