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Southwest Airlines Saves Millions on Fuel and Reduces CO2 Emissions with Pratt & Whitney EcoPower(R) Engine Wash

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

April 23, 2009

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DALLAS, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MRO Americas — Southwest Airlines has performed nearly 1,500 Pratt & Whitney EcoPower engine washes since July 2006, saving more than 9 million gallons of fuel worth $12.5 million and reducing its CO2 emissions by nearly 90,000 metric tons. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company. Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV), the nation’s largest carrier in terms of domestic passengers, currently serves 65 cities in 33 states.

Now under a long-term agreement, Southwest Airlines uses the patented, environmentally friendly Pratt & Whitney EcoPower engine wash system at airports in Orlando, Fla., and Oakland, Calif., through established Pratt & Whitney service centers. Southwest Airlines is the world’s largest operator of CFM56-7B engines.

“Southwest is committed to being an environmental leader,” said Johnny Holley, manager of Powerplant Engineering for Southwest Airlines. “Pratt & Whitney’s EcoPower engine wash system helps us reduce CO2 emissions while also reducing our costs. This helps us continue to offer our customers the value they expect.”

“The benefits of the Pratt & Whitney EcoPower engine wash system speak for themselves,” said Anupam Bhargava, general manager, Pratt & Whitney Line Maintenance Services. “Southwest Airlines demonstrates that investing in operations that are good for the environment can also improve the bottom line.”

Based in Dallas, Southwest currently operates more than 3,300 flights a day and has more than 35,000 employees system wide. Environmental stewardship is a responsibility Southwest takes seriously, and efficient operations are the hallmark of Southwest. Over the decades, Southwest has been at the forefront of such efficiencies as paperless tickets, quick turnarounds, installation of winglets, and more recently, the installation of fleet-wide advanced avionics.

Pratt & Whitney’s patented EcoPower engine wash system reduces fuel burn by as much as 1.2 percent, eliminating three pounds of carbon dioxide emissions for every pound of fuel saved, while also decreasing engine gas temperature thus increasing the amount of time an engine can stay on wing. The EcoPower system, offered through the Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners network, uses a closed-loop system with pure, atomized water to wash aircraft engines, avoiding potential contaminant runoff. The system is more effective and much faster than traditional engine washing processes.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

CFM and CFM56 are trademarks of CFM International

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