Lite Flights

Introduction

Aviation contributes between 3%-5% of global carbon emissions.Lite.Flights was created to help reduce the climate impact of your next flight. By selecting a flight operated by a modern aircraft type you can save up to 50% in CO₂ emissions.

Created, design and developed in-house at Good Caesar this was our biggest independent undertaking. The project set out to change the flight search landscape. Most search engine ranked results based on price and convinience, we put the planet first.

We developed our own in-house database that mapped emissions of the world's most popular aircraft types. We looked at their age, engine type and route length. We merged this together with flight data provided by Amadeus one of then world biggest GDS providers.

Route map

Alongside the search engine we also developed an interactive map that charts the routes flown by the most efficient aircraft.

You can select or search by country, city, airport or aircraft type and explore the resulting route network. It is a dynamic that's updated regularly when new routes are operated by a more efficient generation of aircraft.

The map is re-projected and animated, morphing as you navigate it always placing you at the centre as you explore its possibilities.

Built-in Editorial platform

To provide context around the importance of flying more responsible we also created our own bespoke editorial platform. It includes our engagement with outside stakeholders such the UK Department of Transportation.

The articles cover development within sustainable aviation and helps unpack what can at times seem like a very complex unnavigable world. The platform allows to pull data directly out of the database, to give articles real-world context.

The editorial system was planned, designed and developed in-house, using Sanity, a headless system as the content management platform and framework.