{"id":1240528,"date":"2017-07-06T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/?p=1240528"},"modified":"2017-07-05T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:20:09","slug":"hawaiian-airlines-needs-to-commit-to-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2017\/07\/hawaiian-airlines-needs-to-commit-to-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Airlines Needs To Commit To Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiianairlines.com\/\">Hawaiian Airlines<\/a> offers a lot to like. It has amusing safety videos, its planes arrive on time and nobody gets beat up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s the good news. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The bad news, however, is Hawaiian appears rather lackluster regarding carbon emissions. While the state of Hawaii\u2019s committed to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, the commitment excludes aviation.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1090000\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"cb-image wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-cb-640 wp-image-1090000\" src=\"https:\/\/civilbeat-aws-dotorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaiian Airlines. 22 june 2015. photograph Cory Lum\/Civil Beat\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-640x400.jpg 640w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-1188x743.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-960x600.jpg 960w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/2015\/06\/Hawaiian-Airlines.jpg 1610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hawaiian Airlines jet at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"wp-caption-source\">Cory Lum\/Civil Beat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmosfair.de\/en\">Atmosfair<\/a>, a German research organization that evaluates airlines for environmental sustainability, ranks Hawaiian only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmosfair.de\/en\/atmosfair_airline_index\">middle of the pack<\/a> among long-haul carriers serving the islands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Hawaiian flies a fuel-efficient aircraft fleet. The problem seems to lie with Hawaiian\u2019s noncommittal attitude to biofuels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In an interview with Hawaiian\u2019s inflight magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanahou.com\/\">Hana Hou<\/a>, Hawaiian President and CEO Mark Dunkerley said Hawaiian\u2019s reluctance to use biofuel blends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmosfair.de\/en\/atmosfair_airline_index\">is largely due to safety reasons<\/a> because Hawaiian flies over oceans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">That fair enough. Hawaiian cares about safety. We all do. But the excuse is deflated somewhat by other airlines successfully doing it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporeair.com\/\">Singapore Airlines<\/a> &#8212; another safety conscious carrier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Singapore is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/sia-to-operate-12-green-package-flights-for-three-months-on-san-francisco-singapore-route\">now running a trial<\/a> of weekly 8,446-mile flights from San Francisco to Singapore (twice the distance from the U.S. West Coast to Hawaii and all over water) using a biofuel blend in an Airbus A350-900.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Hawaiian\u2019s longest route, by comparison, is about 5,000 miles. It\u2019s flown by an Airbus A330 between Honolulu and New York \u2014 with half the flight over land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">For its part, Airbus is so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbus.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/en\/2017\/06\/airbus-demonstrates-regular-customer-delivery-flights-with-sustainable-jet-fuel.html\">confident about biofuels<\/a> it offers to deliver newly-built A350s from Toulouse to buyers using a biofuel blend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Hawaiian\u2019s planning to take delivery of a few of these Airbus planes this year, flown from Toulouse in a 16-hour non-stop flight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Given Singapore Airlines and Airbus\u2019 confidence in biofuels, Dunkerley\u2019s comments in Hana Hou look a bit, well, behind the news.<br \/>\nA more practical excuse, of course, could be lack of biofuel supply. But even there, if true, Hawaiian looks &#8212; at best &#8212; slow off the mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\">Alaska Airlines<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Alaska\u2019s routinely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pacific\/news\/2013\/07\/24\/hawaii-bioenergy-biofuel-to-power.html\">using biofuel blends<\/a>. It\u2019s also buying biofuel from island-based Hawaii Bioenergy, presumably for the airline\u2019s flights (over water) from Honolulu to Anchorage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Where\u2019s Hawaiian?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">For its part, Hawaiian\u2019s biggest recent announced sustainability initiative has been to test plugging in its planes to mains power while parked at airports. The goal, naturally, is to reduce ground-based <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com\/releases\/hawaiian-airlines-airport-operations-lowering-fuel-use-carbon-emissions\">jet fuel consumption<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In another touted initiative, Hawaiian also says its flights now routinely carry <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com\/releases\/hawaiian-airlines-showcases-fuel-reduction-environmental-strategies-in-honolulu-brisbane-flights\">atmospheric monitoring equipment<\/a> to contribute data to climate change studies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Both are great ideas. But it\u2019s also a bit hard to believe both aren\u2019t already widespread practice.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">They look like pretty low-hanging fruit.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I sought answers from Hawaii on the questions above from two different Hawaiian Airlines departments. Both responded by saying that the airline is committed to fuel efficiency and environmental sustainability &#8212; which didn\u2019t answer my questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The state of Hawaii leads the world in its universally-supported political commitment to achieving a 100 percent renewable energy economy by 2045. At present, aviation\u2019s the only sector omitted from this statewide commitment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">But that\u2019s changing, too &#8212; at least at the global level. In 2020, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation comes into effect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">CORSIA binds all airlines to achieving carbon neutral growth starting in 2020. That will be followed by ever greater ambition by CORSIA in later years to further reduce global aviation carbon emissions <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Hawaii already has a foot firmly placed in the future. Does Hawaiian?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Stewart Taggart is<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0a Hawaiian Airlines shareholder.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian Airlines offers a lot to like. It has amusing safety videos, its planes arrive on time and nobody gets beat up. That\u2019s the good news. The bad news, however, is Hawaiian appears rather lackluster regarding carbon emissions. While the state of Hawaii\u2019s committed to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, the commitment excludes aviation. 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