KLM and its partners, including Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) and Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), are continuing their sustainable taxiing trials.
A Taxibot – a hybrid towing tractor – drove a KLM Boeing 737-700 from Schiphol central to a platform near the Zwanenburg Runway while the aircraft’s engines were turned off. This method of taxiing greatly reduces fuel consumption and therefore CO2, NOx and (ultra) fine particulate matter emissions.
The trial forms part of the ALBATROSS project, an initiative subsidised by the European Commission and for which Schiphol purchased two Taxibots earlier this year.
Using the Taxibot makes it possible to start the aircraft’s engines much later and therefore not initially at the gate. In the coming period, additional small-scale trials will also be carried out involving pushbacks and towing empty aircraft.
According to the original plan, trials to and from the Polder Runway would now be in full swing. Based on a modified plan, studies, simulations and tests will be carried out over the next 18 months.
These are aimed at further testing, introducing and scaling up new procedures for sustainable taxiing to and from runways including the Polder Runway from mid-2024.
Sustainable taxiing as the new standard
Together with LVNL, AAS, Transavia, Corendon Dutch Airlines, TUIfly and ground handlers dnata, Swissport and Viggo, KLM is working towards achieving fully sustainable airport taxiing operations by 2030.
The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management supports the initiative. The trials form part of European initiatives undertaken by the ALBATROSS consortium and its successor: HERON. These subsidised projects aim to make aviation more sustainable.
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