IBA has released a series of upgrades to its aviation intelligence platform, InsightIQ, including significant enhancements to its Carbon Emissions Calculator (CEC).
InsightIQ can now analyse carbon emissions at MSN (aircraft serial number) level, enabling it to compare the emissions profiles of specific aircraft, says IBA.
These new features also include data on top 25 city route pairs by utilisation and by carbon emissions as well as enhanced data sets on airline fleets, flights and liquidity at company and alliance level
In addition to a drop in utilisation overall, IBA’s new top 25 city route pairs data has highlighted a significant fall in utilisation in many previously strong domestic routes in Australia and the USA, highlighting the slower recovery of these markets in 2021 compared to China.
The renowned Australian trunk route between New South Wales and Victoria fell from 2nd place in the rankings in 2019 to 7th in 2021, while Brisbane to Sydney fell from 8th to out of the top 25. In the USA, Los Angeles to San Francisco fell from 10th to 24th while Chicago to New York dropped from 16th to out of the ranking. Conversely, the Moscow to Sochi route leapt to 2nd position in 2021 having not been in the rankings in 2019. The top route remained between Seoul and Jeju in both years.
Overall, the number of flights between IBA’s top 25 city pairs fell by 60% from 891,443 in 2019 to 355,342 in 2021. The actual number of flight hours on these routes fell from 1,268,862 to 494,960.
Ian Beaumont, Chief Executive Officer of IBA, said: “Calculating carbon emissions, growing levels of green financing and robust ESG reporting are all integral to the future of the aviation industry. These latest enhancements reaffirm our commitment to providing invaluable comparative analysis enabling lessors, investors and banks to demonstrate their green credentials effectively and productively.”