Having just resumed after lunch, the term food for thought become apparent as a the panel on biofuels, guided and moderated by Andréa Debbané, Vice President for Environment Affairs, Airbus, and Bill Glover, Vice President Environment and Aviation Policy, Boeing, began to look for solutions to the hurdles facing biofuels. Techniques for fabricating alternative fuels [...]

A hot topic at the Aviation and Environment Summit, biofuels are in the news for good reason. Airbus and Virgin Australia have announced today the enlargement of a consortium to research and develop commercial sustainable aviation fuels. Western Australia’s fertile wheat belt has been the recent home of eucalyptus mallee trees, sustainably grown, harvested and [...]

Navigating the most efficient course is not limited to Air Traffic Controllers and pilots in the aviation industry. Equally efficiency is not limited to the fuel burnt by aircraft or ground vehicles, to paperless tickets and flight decks, to building new runways and airports, and the copious other sectors associated with aviation. It is an [...]

The typical view of aviation most passengers receive is either through the cabin window at 36,000 feet or face to face with the behemoths through the departure lounge window at the airport. Its true this is a typical representation of aviation, however there are less well known, and exotic, forms of aviation which are worth [...]

Richard Branson, the international entrepreneur and founder of the Carbon War Room, an organization with a mission to fight emissions, recently upped the ante by adding to Virgin Atlantic’s current aim of 30% carbon reductions per passenger kilometer by 2020, to 50% sustainable fuel use by 2020. In October 2011, Virgin Atlantic, LanzaTech Biofuels, and [...]

Next week, we’ll be in Montreal for the International Civil Aviation Organisation‘s Sustainable Aviation Fuels Workshop. The event will bring together a number of the players in the aviation biofuel world to update the UN Agency on latest developments in this rapidly-moving field and discuss ways in which we can work together to ensure that [...]

I have been at the Greener Skies conference in Hong Kong, organised by the region’s most important aviation publication, Orient Aviation. The meeting covered off two key themes on aviation and environment – the very political issue of the impending inclusion of aviation in the European emissions trading scheme and the way forwards for developing [...]

The latest news on biofuel from the aviation sector suggests a trend: Biofuel is going Latin! Thanks to an ambitious action program (reported on Enviro.aero earlier) the Mexican carrier Interjet operated a commercial flight partially powered by biofuel – the first of its kind in Latin America – between the cities of Mexico City and [...]

Great news today as KLM Airlines become the first in the world to fly a passenger flight on biofuel. Flight KL1233, from Amsterdam to Paris Charles de Gaulle, used a 50% mix of biofuel from used cooking oil on the flight, which comes just a couple of weeks after the interim certification for biofuels was [...]

With last week’s important announcement that biofuels are only a few weeks away from official certification that we can use them on passenger flights, there was a cascade of news from the air show at Le Bourget to do with aviation biofuels. Here is a summary.  On Saturday, Honeywell completed the first trans-Atlantic biofuel flight [...]