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 [...]

A colleague of mine came back from a flight recently and was all excited about the knives and forks used during the in-flight service. Now, this colleague is not obsessed with tableware, but he was right to be excited about not only the design (which is stunning and by noted Dutch designer Marcel Wanders) but [...]

I thought I’d share with you a video that played during yesterday’s announcement of the formation of SkyEnergy by KLM. It explains very clearly the benefits of switching to biofuels. Here is the video:

I write from Amsterdam where technicians and flight crew from Dutch airline KLM are preparing one of their Boeing 747 aircraft for a landmark flight. When it takes off in four and a half hours at 1415 CET, it will be carrying not only a select group of around 40 politicians, technical experts and industry [...]

Following a series of flight tests earlier this year, KLM will be undertaking a demonstration flight on 23 November, flying a Boeing 747-400 with one of its engines being powered by 50% traditional jet fuel and 50% biofuel from camelina. Significantly, this flight will have a special VIP passenger list. Previous biofuels flights have been [...]

Boarding a flight at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport yesterday, I was surprised to see that our air stairs had solar panels (they are the dark panels on the side of the stairs in this photo – sorry for the poor quality, it was a Blackberry camera). I am guessing that they charge batteries for inbuilt lighting [...]

It is interesting to reflect on the past couple of years in the aviation industry. When I first became involved in aviation at a global level in 2006, no one really believed biofuels would make much of an impact. In fact, there were those who thought biofuels were an impossible sell to aviation, considering the [...]