{"id":4603,"date":"2015-11-11T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-air-rated-most-efficient-airline-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:05:37","slug":"alaska-air-rated-most-efficient-airline-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-air-rated-most-efficient-airline-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Air rated most efficient airline in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines ranks No. 1 in fuel efficiency among U.S. Airlines, according to a report issued by the Washington D.C. think tank, the International Council on Clean Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth consecutive year Alaska Air has been No. 1 in the rankings, which combine how much traffic the airline carries with how much fuel it consumes to generate a fuel efficiency score. A score of 1.00 represented average efficiency across all airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska\u2019s efficiency scored 1.14, while the No. 2 airline, Spirit, had a score of 1.13. The bottom airline in the rankings, American, had an efficiency score of 0.91.<\/p>\n<p>The scores cover efficiency in the 2014 calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>The ICCT report credits Alaska\u2019s efficiency to its newer aircraft and the addition of winglets that improve fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines ranks No. 1 in fuel efficiency among U.S. Airlines, according to a report issued by the Washington D.C. think tank, the International Council on Clean Transportation. This is the fifth consecutive year Alaska Air has been No. 1 in the rankings, which combine how much traffic the airline carries with how much fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}