IATA and ATPCO team up to provide emissions data

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and airline merchandising specialist ATPCO have partnered to provide carbon emissions data for flights.

ATPCO will integrate IATA’s CO2 Connect data through its Routehappy API “later this year” and will create a Routehappy Rich Content Amenity, which will be “flight-shopper friendly” for displaying CO2 emissions.

Routehappy Amenities data enables travel sellers to display features such as seat pitch and type, wifi, power points and entertainment at the time of booking.

ATPCO president and CEO Alex Zoghlin said: “It’s clear there is a growing interest from passengers, corporate, travel management companies and travel agents to receive CO2 information so they can use it to compare flights and make a more sustainable choice. 

“IATA’s CO2 Connect offers airline-specific fuel burn data, and we are looking forward to making this available to our growing list of Routehappy Rich Content partners.”

The current data that IATA has sourced covers actual fuel-burn data from 74 aircraft types representing about 98 per cent of active global passenger fleet. It also considers traffic data from 881 aircraft operators, representing about 93 per cent of global air travel, according to the organisation.

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