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 [...]

Before the Greener Skies conference even starts, we have some news from the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. They have redesigned a piece of the airspace they control in a way that will shave 14 minutes off all flights arriving from Europe, Southern China, the Middle East and South East Asia. They are doing this [...]

As I sat having lunch in the Geneva airport staff cafeteria this afternoon (excuse the photo – it was taken on my BlackBerry), I watched a Qatar Airways aircraft as it landed and docked at the gate. The ground crew dutifully attached the fixed electrical ground power and pre-conditioned air supply – thus allowing the [...]

In the last blog post, Chris detailed some of the effects of market-distorting taxes on passenger choices. Another example of the law of unintended consequences appears in this month’s Lufthansa Policy Brief . From 2012 all airlines taking off or landing in the European Union will have to pay for their emissions under the European [...]

Some interesting figures have emerged about the effect of the new flight tax in the Netherlands. Introduced on 1 July 2008, supposedly to counter the CO2 impact of Dutch aviation (though of course not a cent goes towards environmental action) the tax added between 11 and 45 Euros to the cost of an air ticket. [...]

It is not often that I praise the UK Government’s stance on aviation and the environment. This is a government that collects over 2 billion pounds a year from Air Passenger Duty, ostensibly for environmental reasons but puts none of the revenue back into the environment. And it ignores the fact that the tax does [...]

Airlines are increasingly seeing the benefits of retro-fitting older aircraft with new technologies available that help save fuel and reduce emissions. Partially, this is because of the high oil price suddenly making the return on investment period a lot shorter, but it also reflects the new emphasis within a lot of airlines on operating greener [...]