Business Travel Green buses clear the air
National Express West Midlands engineers have been carrying out pioneering work to clean up the region’s air. The bus company has fitted new
green technology into hundreds of its older buses to catch harmful particulates and NOx gases. It takes a team of two engineers
around six hours to fit a filter and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) “trap” with AdBlue injection to each bus. When they’ve finished, the
harmful emissions are reduced by as much as 96 per cent, making the air coming out of the exhaust cleaner than the air in the city outside. National Express West Midlands managing director, Tom Stables, said: “A bus engine is only four times bigger than a car engine but a bus can carry 75 people inside - taking about 50 cars off the road. “All the new buses we’ve bought
for the last two years have had the greenest engines on the market. “What with these new buses,
and retrofitting the older ones, 60% of our fleet now operates to the two highest European emission standards - making the air in the West Midlands cleaner and healthier.”
Sector Focus
New flights take off to Stockholm
Scandinavian Airlines are launching twice weekly flights to Stockholm from Birmingham Airport. The new route will operate on
Fridays and Sundays, commencing on 30 March 2018. The Friday flights are to arrive
into Birmingham at 8am and depart for Stockholm at 8.40am, while the Sunday flights will arrive at 9.35am and depart for Stockholm at 10.15am. William Pearson, Birmingham
Airport’s aviation director, said: “SAS is a long standing airline at Birmingham Airport and it’s great to see an expansion of its services to include a new route of Stockholm added to its existing route of Copenhagen.” Niko Ek, regional sales manager
Keeping the air clean (L-R): bus maintenance staff Tom Taylor, Jack Hardwick, Mark Moore and Simon Ellis
‘All the new buses we’ve bought for the last two years have had the greenest engines on the market’
at Scandinavian Airlines, said: “We are glad to soon be starting our new route from Birmingham, where we have seen a growing demand from our passengers, both traveling for pleasure and business.” In addition, Primera Air is to
expand its transatlantic offering from Birmingham Airport by launching direct flights to Toronto. The low cost airline will fly to
Toronto three times a week from May 2018.
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