Some 18 months since the introduction of its ‘aircraft drywash’ technique, Emirates has saved millions of litres of water, according to a spokesman who used World Environment Day to highlight the accomplishment.
“As indicated by the name, little or no water is involved in cleaning the aircraft, which is in contrast to conventional methods of aircraft cleaning which typically use thousands of litres of water per wash.
“Traditionally aircraft are cleaned by using highly pressurised water four to five times every year. However, on an average this technique uses more than 11 300 litres of water to clean one Airbus A380 aircraft and more than 9 500 litres of water to clean a Boeing 777 aircraft every time.
“Since early 2016 Emirates has been using an aircraft drywash technique to clean its fleet of over 250 aircraft. It takes a crew of 15 staff about 12 hours to clean an A380 and about 9 hours to clean a Boeing 777 aircraft.”
Watch a video of an Emirates Airbus A380 undergoing a drywash at the Emirates Engineering hangar in Dubai.
