Guide to CTM Carbon Emissions Calculations

CTM’s partnership with RDC Aviation brings unparalleled accuracy and granularity in CO2 emission calculations, making it the top choice for business travel managers and companies seeking sustainable travel options. RDC’s proprietary fuel burn calculation, combined with their comprehensive database of over 35,000 airframes, enables us to display CO2 emissions by flight, airline, aircraft type, and origin-destination pair at the point of booking in Lightning.

This level of detail empowers business travellers to make informed decisions about their environmental impact when choosing which flight to take. By considering factors such as airline-specific seat configurations, cabin class, and CO2 emissions per kilometer, businesses and their travellers can optimise their travel choices to minimize their carbon footprint.

RDC’s calculations power search results for CO2 in Lightning in addition to our Carbon Budget tool and Climate+ dashboards dedicated to helping organisations track, forecast and offset their carbon emissions from business travel.

Flight emission calculations

Here are the key factors CTM and RDC use to calculate CO2 emissions to help you make more informed decisions at the point of booking flights in Lightning:

• Route and aircraft type plus more granular factors such as engine type, age, fuel burn, and much more to give you a more detailed picture.
• A comprehensive database of airlines, aircraft and engine types, and seating configurations of more than 35,000 airframes which enables a more granular calculation to be made.
• Fuel efficiency of the aircraft type.
• Efficiency of the airline – seat capacity, load factor.
• Use of Sustainable Alternative Fuels.
• Whether the route is part of a compliance or regulatory emissions program such as CORSIA, EU ETS, etc.
• Whether the operator offsets emissions over and above that which is legally required.