The Sustainability Data Suite includes over three dozen metrics, covering sustainability, financial performance, and operational statistics
CAPA- Centre for Aviation announces the launch of its new aviation Sustainability Data Suite, the metrics of approximately 100 airlines and airline groups, collectively accounting for more than 75% of global aviation traffic and CO2 emissions during 2023.
Drawing information from public reporting from airlines, along with industry leading data products from CAPA and the Aviation Week Network, the Sustainability Data Suite tracks more than three dozen different metrics.
This includes not only sustainability data, but also measures airline financial performance and operating statistics. This provides a picture that includes not only sustainability and relative efficiency performance but illuminates the financial and operational risks that the industry’s sustainability transition brings with it.
Available in the dedicated Data Centre section on the CAPA – Centre for Aviation website, the information contained in the Sustainability Data Suite is displayed in a graphical format. This allows users to quickly and visually to compare the sustainability performance of airlines.
The data is initially available for a period of five years. The database will be progressively updated to include the most recently available information, as airlines report sustainability key performance indicators, announce financial results, and update their operational and traffic statistics.
The database includes:
- Total carbon emissions for individual airlines and airline groups – Based on reported scope 1 emissions or fuel use, this provides a straightforward visual reference point for the emissions of an airline/airline group for a 12-month period.
- Emissions by traffic type – Provides a breakdown of airline emissions broken down by passenger and cargo traffic.
- Carbon emissions intensity – Displays the unit emissions intensity of airlines/airline groups, as measured against a range of operational metrics (ASKs, RPKs, PTKs, CTKs and RTK).
- Emissions intensity variables – Provides insight into how a range of airline operational metrics – including average fleet age, passenger/cargo load factor and average aircraft stage length – impact the relative unit emissions performance of airlines.
- Emissions intensity over time – Highlights the progress that airlines have made in reducing their per unit CO2 emissions over time.
- Average fleet age – Shows which airlines have the most modern fleets, a key indicator of the relative efficiency of an airline’s aircraft.
- Breakeven carbon price comparison – Based on CAPA’s extensive coverage of airline financial reporting, the breakeven carbon price calculator shows industry operating profit/loss per tonne of CO2 emitted.
- Emissions and revenue comparison – Provides a measure of the weighted average carbon intensity of an individual airline or airline group, based on tonnes of CO2 emitter per million USD of revenue generated.
- SAF risk matrix – Shows the vulnerability of the industry to the transition towards sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The SAF risk matrix highlights airline profit margins and the share of fuel as a percentage of operating costs.
- Sustainability risk resilience matrix – Highlights the level of financial risk from the industry’s decarbonisation efforts, for individual airlines or airline groups by showing an airlines’ break-even carbon price and unit emissions, for both passenger and freight operating metrics.
- CO2 emissions reported compared to emissions calculated from fuel use – Outlines the variability in industry reporting of sustainability metrics, showing the difference between reported CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions calculated from reported fuel use.
CAPA, Content & Marketing Director, Marco Navarria, said, “With a greater than ever emphasis globally on sustainability, it is important to understand and track the progress of the airline industry when it comes to sustainability. We are extremely excited to announce the launch of the CAPA Sustainability Data Suite, which provides a single source overview of the sector’s progress, illuminating the performance of the airline industry as it continues along its vital and ambitious path towards decarbonization.”
