Southwest Airlines Engine Laundry

Southwest Airlines Co. to save a multi-year agreement of an ecological system engine-washing, in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and fuel usage signed. The Dallas-based carrier is the system of EcoPower East Hartford, Connecticut-based technology company Aircraft Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners service. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Pratt & Whitney said, fuel economy in the southwest could exceed 20 million U.S. dollars annually. The company also cut 135 million poundscarbon dioxide emissions every year as a result. The agreement with Pratt & Whitney comes as Southwest, along with the rest of the airline industry faces record fuel prices, many have the capacity and expenditure of the levy for travelers led trim. South West in the first quarter decreased 63 percent to 34 million U.S. dollars of profits, guided in part by an increase of 34 percent in fuel costs and oil over the same period in 2007. Southwest said it was performing regular washes at airports in Orlando,Florida and Oakland, Calif., where Pratt & Whitney has established new service centers. The EcoPower equipment uses a closed-loop system with atomized water to wash aircraft engines, to prevent runoff contamination, said Pratt & Whitney. The patented system is more efficient and faster than traditional engine washing. Pratt & Whitney parent United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) employs more than 225,000 worldwide and in 2007 recorded profit of 4.22 billion U.S. dollars to 54.8 billion U.S. dollars...

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