Austrian Airlines
👋 Fin-tastic news: Austrian Airlines takes off with sharkskin🦈
Austrian Airlines will successively equip four of its six Boeing 777-200ER✈️ long-haul aircraft with the fuel-saving sharkskin film by March 2025. This will save around one percent of the total fuel consumption per flight. At one percent, the sharkskin’s efficiency potential may not sound like much, but in total it will save thousands of tons of CO2 per year on long-haul flights.
AeroSHARK is a surface technology jointly developed by Lufthansa Technik and BASF, which consists of transparent ribs around 50 micrometers in size – the so-called riblets. It imitates the properties of particularly aerodynamic sharkskin and thus optimizes aerodynamics in relevant areas of the aircraft ✈️🦈 ✈️ 🦈✈️🦈 ✈️