Sustaining Reductions in Aircraft Emissions for Canada’s Major Airlines

Environmental Quality Mgmt

2018

The aim of this paper is to report the best practices of airlines' green operations strategies throughout the world by surveying airlines from different regions. To realize this goal, a sample of 23 airlines from different regions (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East) was surveyed. The sample suited the availability of the secondary published data. For the study, the annual sustainability reports of surveyed airlines from the period of 2013 to 2016 were reviewed. The reports were retrieved from the Global Reporting Initiative website and from airline websites. To gain insight into the best practices, two analytical approaches were adopted: cross-sampling and cluster analysis. The study revealed that the best practices are related to several green indicators, and the actions in best practice were closer to process-oriented than to technology-oriented actions. This is one of a very few studies to report the best practices in green operations strategy over time by airlines at the global level. Elzzqaibeh, 2018), but very few writers have reported the best green strategic patterns (e.g., Migdadi, 2016;Migdadi & Elzzqaibeh, 2018), and most of the previous studies have investigated the manufacturing sector, with less concern for the service sector.Migdadi (2016) in his study, reporting the practices of six leading mobile phone producers, develops the best green strategic patterns clearly and in depth, but his indicative models are treated with very basic statistical methods. Furthermore, Migdadi's study, being very limited in sample size, does not report the strategic patterns adopted over regions or compare one region with another.The study of Migdadi and Elzzqaibeh (2018) reports the strategic patterns of green manufacturing by ISO 14001 certificate holders in a single country, and evaluates in depth the green strategies adopted. Indeed, all of the previous studies have focused on one country or a small number of countries when they report manufacturing green strategies. This means that the service sector still needs more Environ Qual Manage. 2019;28:21-32. c 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 21 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/tqem AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY Y. K. A. Migdadi is an associate professor of operations management at the business department, Yarmouk University, Jordan. He was awarded a PhD in operations strategy from Bradford University, UK, and also awarded a BA and an MBA from Yarmouk University, Jordan. He worked as a teaching assistant and a researcher of operations and information management at Bradford University, School of Management, UK. His main research interest is reporting operations strategy: best practices, taxonomies, process, and typologies.How to cite this article: Migdadi YKA. Identifying the best practices of airlines' green operations strategy: A crossregional worldwide survey. Environ Qual Manage. 2018;28:21-32. https://doi.

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confidence: 99%

Identifying the best practices of airlines’ green operations strategy: A cross‐regional worldwide survey

Environmental Quality Mgmt

2018

“…Lee et al, 2017), engine washing (e.g. Chapman, 2016) and corporate environment management practices (e.g. Abdullah et al, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, other studies have focused on reporting the strategic practices such as fleet renewal (e.g. Abdullah et al, 2016;Chapman, 2016), winglets (e.g. Chapman, 2016); alternative bio-fuel (Lee et al, 2017) and aircraft engine design (e.g.…”

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A novel technique for evaluating and ranking green airlines: benchmarking-base comparison

Alkhatib

2020

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PurposeThis study aims to evaluate and rank green airlines by proposing a novel approach that integrates different multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques.Design/methodology/approachThree MCDM techniques were adopted: Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) addressed the impact relationships between Airline Green Operations (AGOs) and classified them into cause and effect; analytical hierarchy process (AHP) prioritized these actions and found their global and local weights; and Techniques to Order Preferences by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) used the weighted actions to evaluate and rank 20 green airlines as a case study.FindingsDEMATEL outcomes provide the first AGOs impact relationships map (IRM), classify AGOs into cause and effect actions and provide better understanding how these green operations affect each other. According to the AHP outcomes, “GHG1and fuel” and “GHG2 and Energy” were the most important set of actions, respectively. Finally, a new evaluation and ranking for 20 green airlines has been presented.Practical implicationsThe AGOs IRM provides a better understanding of the airline green operations and how they affect each other. The new evaluation and ranking technique helps airlines to identify their green strength and weakness areas and supports their sustainability processes.Originality/valueThe increasing importance of AGOs evaluation and analysis highlights the importance of green airlines studies like this one. This study analyzed AGOs, their impact relationships, developed their IRM and provided a new worldwide green airline benchmarking base.

“…Furthermore, most studies have reported practices in the context of a single country (e.g. Lynes and Dredge, 2006;Harvey et al, 2013;Chapman, 2016;Horio et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2017) or a single region (e.g. Yan et al, 2016), and very few studies (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Identifying the effective taxonomies of airline green operations strategy

2020

MEQ

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effective taxonomies of airline green operations strategy. Design/methodology/approach To this end, a sample of 23 airlines from five regions (North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East) was surveyed. The annual sustainability reports of the surveyed airlines for the period 2013‒2016 were retrieved from the Global Reporting Initiatives website. K-means clustering analysis was used to generate taxonomic clusters of airline green operations strategy. A special data analysis technique, called rank analysis, was also adopted to identify the significant green actions and develop indicative models. Findings This study revealed that three effective taxonomies were adopted by airlines: a low-effect strategic pattern, a low-to-moderate effect strategic pattern and a high-effect strategic pattern. A different combination of green operation actions characterized each strategic pattern. Originality/value The research contribution of taxonomies of green operations strategy has so far been limited, country focused and concentrated on the manufacturing sector. This study reported the taxonomies and performed an in-depth analysis of the categories of effective actions taken to promote green performance. Moreover, this study developed indicative models for the relationship between categories of action and green performance for each strategic pattern, an action that has seldom been reported by previous studies of green operations strategies for airlines.