Industry collaboration is the key to efficient Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems according to CANSO and Boeing at the 6th Aviation and Environment Summit. Despite the current high level of optimized Air Traffic Management there is more capacity and efficiency to be had from the current advanced ATM systems in place.  This call out to [...]

What is I-4D? – despite the name, it is not the latest craze for cinema goers, but is in fact the culmination of a smart new air traffic management technology delivered by SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research) with the help of Airbus, Eurocontrol, Honeywell, Indra, Noracon1, and Thales. February 10, 2012, was [...]

Although most of the media attention is on the orders for new generation planes, there have also been some important smaller stories coming out of this year’s Paris Air Show. Boeing and American Airlines have teamed up for the first Eco Demonstrator programme, whereby two of American Airline’s in-service aircraft will be used as testing [...]

Today’s guest blogger is Nancy Young, Vice President for Environmental Affairs, Air Transport Association of America. Nancy is with the aviation team in Cancun for the COP16 conference. As I packed my bags for the climate negotiations in Cancun, I looked through some of the photos I took during last year’s talks in Copenhagen. One [...]

Sky Airline of Chile and British Airways both recently signed agreements to begin research into producing biofuels in order to develop an environmentally-friendly aviation jetfuel. Sky Airline will work PetroAlgae and will convert feedstock into a jet fuel whilst British Airways will work with Solena to convert waste biomass into a gas that will then [...]

The Clean Sky joint undertaking is a European Union programme aimed at getting government, research bodies and the industry working together and jointly funding research into technologies that could be applied to new aircraft designs, aimed at reducing emissions. It is a sister programme of the SESAR joint undertaking, which aims to build similar partnerships [...]

… and Airbus is to mark the year by featuring the official logo on its A380 superjumbo aircraft throughout 2010. Airbus pledged support in June 2009 for the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Green Wave initiative. The aim of the initiative is to educate young people about life on Earth, the [...]

My organisation, the Air Transport Action Group, is all about coordination of aviation industry partners for a greener future for flight. We bring together commercial rivals such as Airbus and Boeing and operational partners such as airports, airlines and air traffic control organisations in order to craft, plan and execute common environmental objectives, such as [...]

Under new European regulation, all airlines flying in and out of Europe will be required to reduce carbon gas emission by 3% by the end of 2012. Yet movements this week would suggest many airlines are willing to go further… Thai Airlines International intends to achieve 50% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, taking [...]

This week the aviation industry has had its focus on developing alternative energy both on the ground and in the air. East Midlands Airport announced plans to have four giant wind turbines built by the end of this year, which will be used to generate electricity for the airport. The turbines will generate 900 kilowatt [...]