Perfect weather and a great day for the opening of the Farnborough Air Show.  Next to the show news at every entrance, visitors could also pick up copies of the Green Flight Times and new Beginner’s Guide to Aviation Efficiency. Green flight was a theme that carried throughout the day.  First, we had a tour [...]

The weekend saw the first ‘perfect flight’ take place in the UK as British Airways (BA), BAA and air traffic control group NATS attempted to ensure that the BA1462 flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh produced the smallest amount of CO2 possible.  By optimizing every possible factor, the companies believe that a quarter of a tonne [...]

As we head towards the weekend, I have seen a couple of video clips that might be of interest. First, Ayesha Durgahee from CNN reports on ways some airlines are reducing their carbon emissions. And my old colleagues at Auckland Airport in New Zealand have produced this video overview of their sustainability programme. Next week, [...]

Actually, they aren’t going to exactly remove the cars from the road, but they will be taking the equivalent of 48,000 car’s carbon emissions out of the atmosphere with a new scheme announced today. They are going to be producing their own biofuel. Out of waste that would otherwise have been put into landfill. British [...]

Today, a group of airline chief executives will sit down with government and environment leaders at the UN in New York at one of a series of pre-events before December’s Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. By all accounts, the negotiations for the next Kyoto Protocol [...]

Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of British Airways, believes that the industry has to continue funding environmental research, despite concerns that losses and weak forecasts might result in airlines cutting back their environmental programmes.