OK, that didn't take long to read up on - so here's te deal:
1) Take the no. of pax and multiply by 100 kg. (or the mass of your freight)
2) Divide the result into a 1000 kg. This is your "tonnage"-figure
3) Take the distance you've flown based on your flight planning softwares route calculation and multiply by 1,852. This is your "kilometers"-figure
4) Multiply "tonnage" by "kilometers" to obtain TonnesKilometers (or TKm)
5) Submit a paper stating the above to DfT no later than 31/08/09.
6) Include a cheque for 830 GBP for them to approve your plan.
7) Include a new field on every flight envelope marked "TKm" and let the crews do the calculation after every flight.
8) When the envelope comes in, enter the TKm value for each flight in the benchmarking year 2010.
9) Jan 1st 2011, call in your accountant (or anybody else that could work as a "verifier") - make them countersign you TKm total for 2010.
10) Send in your verified accounts for 2010 and obtain your free carbon allowance.
11) The smart operator will - anticipating changes to legislation at a later date to account for fuel savings etc. - already now calculate how much fuel they burn
pr TKm. Make the crews take actual fuel burn (from tech log) and divide it by the TKm, giving you tonnes of fuel
pr TKm or T/TKm.
12) Scream to your legislator that your company uses CDA-approaches and have bought a brand new GLX5K in stead of the old, smokey G4. Demand that actual emissions be taken into account. When that happens, you'll be glad you've already got all the data from item 11) above.
13) Fly a lot in 2010 - even if it's at a loss!!! Those carbon credits are gonna be nice to have in the carbon bank for a rainy day! You could, e.g. sell them on (cue evil laughter!)
14) When you recieve your allowance, make an optimistic guess that you'll fly 10% more TKms than your allowance. Then spread the cost of this over every charter you do.
15) Wait & see what happens. Either all your clients run screaming for cover and drop all flying activities - or they bite the bullet and still fly, maybe not quite as often as before, but they still fly. If you can survive on that - good. If not...
