Environment programme

The air transport industry (ATI) is already challenged with cutting costs and streamlining operations. At the same time, companies are faced with increasing environmental regulations and reporting requirements. These will create a significant impact on business practices.

Simplifying environmental compliance


SITA's products and solutions all have a direct or indirect role to help the industry deal with the challenges it faces. Our approach to environmental concerns and constraints comprises four components:

  1. Using IT and industry leverage to enable operational improvements
    An example is enabling collaborative decision-making between airport airside operations, air traffic management and airlines, which will be pivotal in reducing the 6-12% of fuel which is currently wasted on the ground or in the air.
  2. Providing green IT-compliant services through the application service provisioning (ASP) model, where single applications are shared across the entire industry and operated in our data centre
  3. Helping our customers cope with new regulatory burdens by using the community approach to set up an information hub for emissions reporting - to fulfill monitoring, reporting and verification obligations
  4. Amending our current services to deliver carbon footprint information to consumers and consumer groups

Industry strategy for Aviation & Climate change

SITA's approach leverages the industry's proposed action for Aviation and Climate change. This is a four-pillar strategy based on:

  • Technological progress
  • Infrastructure enhancements
  • Operational improvements
  • Suitable economic instruments

SITA's Environment Programme assists the ATI in the above areas by focusing on:

  • Implementing services to support environmental regulations
  • Increasing operational improvement by exploiting Information Technology
  • Answering carbon footprint and offset requirements