Advito, the consulting arm of travel management company BCD Travel, has created a new environmental quality service index for buyers to use during negotiations with airlines.
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The sustainability index, known as eQSI, creates a fair market share (FMS) calculation that takes aircraft efficiency into account.
Advito originally created its own quality service index (QSI) to ¡°combat the carrier-centric FMS data typically provided by airlines¡±. It has now gone further by also taking aircraft environmental performance into account through eQSI.
Julien Etchanchu, Advito¡¯s sustainable collaboration practice lead, explained: ¡°Aircraft performance is an objective input; we know that newer aircraft emit less CO2 than older models.?
¡°Using that data, now we¡¯re able to concretely factor environmental impact into negotiations and use predictive analytics to calculate future scores as well.¡±
Advito¡¯s new eQSI will award a higher market share to airlines using a newer generation fleet of aircraft.
¡°One of the four pillars of building a sustainable business travel programme is to source sustainable suppliers, added Etchanchu.
¡°Our new eQSI, refreshed monthly, is the best tool in a travel manager¡¯s arsenal to begin looking at sustainability while building their programme, rather than waiting until contracts are in place to get started.¡±