Passenger aircraft of Lufthansa Group airlines have once again set a record for airplane fuel efficiency in 2014, consuming an average o...
This translates into a 26 km per litre per passenger mileage, incredible when compared to road transportation.
This represents an improvement of 1.6 per cent over the previous year's 3.91 l/100 pkm, thus meeting the demanding aerospace industry target of annual efficiency gains of 1.5 per cent.
All the airlines in the Lufthansa Group including Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Germanwings continued to improve their specific consumption values.
Group-wide efficiency in cargo transportation was increased by 0.8 per cent. In the reporting year 2014, the absolute fuel consumption in the Group increased slightly by 0.7 per cent with an increase in transport capacity of 1.9 per cent, so the trend towards the decoupling of transport capacity and fuel consumption was also continued successfully.
The further reduction of specific fuel consumption is foreseeable through the investment in new, more efficient and low-noise aircraft.
Lufthansa has now put the last of 19 Boeing 747-8 aircraft into service. The aircraft is 15 per cent more fuel efficient than its predecessor model B 747-400.
The first Airbus A350-900s of Lufthansa which will consume a mere 2.9 liters of kerosene per passenger per 100 kilometers, roughly 25 percent less than current-generation aircraft will join the fleet at the end of 2016 further increasing the efficiency. Lufthansa has ordered a total of 25 of these next generation jetliners.
The Group is also focusing on the research and use of alternative, low-CO2 fuels. The Lufthansa Group is also engaged in the electromobility initiative E-PORT AN at Frankfurt Airport, in order to make the taxiing and towing operations of aircraft more efficient through the use of electromobility and thus to reduce kerosene consumption and CO2 emissions on the ground.
By 2025, the company will receive 272 aircraft at a list value of 38 billion euros. This is the biggest fleet modernisation program in the history of the Lufthansa Group. In 2015 alone, 17 aircraft will be delivered to the Group.
