JAL extends user-preferred-route trials to Australia
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After receiving safety verifications, JAL successfully conducted trials usingUPR – a flight path planning system that helps to reduce fuel consumption andthereby reduce CO2 gas emissions, on flights to Hawaii since August 2008. By utilising thismethod of flight operations on the daily, round-trip flights to bothdestinations in Australia, JAL estimates that it can save up to 1 million lbs.(560,000 liters or 28000 oil drums) of fuel which translates to an approximatedecrease in CO2 gas emissions by 1,400 tons, thereby potentially reducing thecost of fuel by 24 million yen (US$250,000)
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