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SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH EDUCATION
Embraer Education and Research Institute inaugurated this year a new unit of the Embraer High School, a model school focused on academic excellence for students from the public school system. All 120 students from the first class attended elementary school in the public system of the region. The Colégio Embraer — Casimiro Montenegro Filho Unit was built in the city of Botucatu, where Embraer also has its second plant in Brazil. The school’s location
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is 240 km from the capital of São Paulo and its installation required an investment of around $2.5million. The new school will function like the first unit, in São José dos Campos, which has already graduated 1,800 students since its inception in 2002 and has remained among the best in São Paulo State. Ever since 2008, the school’s pupils have regularly achieved 100% approval in Brazilian college entrance exams, with more than 80% of them going to public universities.
BOMBARDIER WINS 2013 SAFETY AWARD
The master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators has awarded Bombardier Aerospace the Master’s North American Award for its industry contributions to air and ground safety practices. “Following a comprehensive review of several strong candidates, we are delighted to recognise Bombardier Aerospace for its impressive safety management system (SMS): a systematic, explicit and comprehensive lifelong process for managing safety risks beyond regulatory compliance,” said Tudor Owen, master. Bombardier SMS central themes involve active hazard identification, risk management and performance measurement. To ensure a common standard for safety, all employees in Bombardier Aerospace across the globe undergo a safety programme either individually with SMS awareness training, or collectively via aviation safety weeks. To further promote safety culture, individuals and groups are regularly recognised for their contributions to this critically important mission.
1_In 2011, Alaska Airlines and sister carrier Horizon flew 75 flights on biofuel between Seattle and Washington DC and Portland using Boeing 737 and Bombardier Q400 aircraft. 2_The next aerospace engineers? Students at a school established by Embraer, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
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LUFTHANSA HAS REPLACED ALL ITS 5,600 CARGO CONTAINERS WITH A NEW LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL, SAVING 6,800 TONNES OF CO2 PER YEAR.
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A new report highlights how the UK-I reland Functional Airspace Block (FAB) has successfully delivered real savings to airline customers as part of the drive towards the Single European Sky. The report shows that in 2012, the FAB delivered an estimated $35 million of enabled savings to airlines, including 25,000 tonnes of fuel savings, equivalent to 80,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The Irish Aviation Authority and NATS (UK), as air navigation service providers, are achieving these operational and cost efficiencies through ever closer organisational and technological integration. Constructive engagement with airline and military partners is a crucial factor in the success of the FAB. Eamonn Brennan, Irish Aviation Authority CEO said “The UK-Ireland FAB is delivering real savings for our airline customers and the environment and is leading the way in the Single European Sky project. We have initiated programmes that are real stepping stones that facilitate ever closer co-operation that in turn enables ever greater savings”. The first FAB to be established, in 2008, the UK-Ireland FAB has to date delivered over $91m of enabled savings to customers, including 232,000 tonnes of CO2 and 73,000 tonnes of fuel, through innovative airspace enhancements that facilitate more direct aircraft routings.
SAVING EMISSIONS BY FAB
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