Tag: Airlines
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Carbon 'tape' easier way to cut CO2 from our flying habit?
A carbon fiber material made from tape instead of yarn can significantly reduce the weight - and fuel needs, and CO2 emissions - of passenger jets.
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App Reveals Most Fuel Efficient Flights On Expedia
We're all used to weighing up factors like price and travel time when we book flights. But what about fuel efficiency or emissions? A new app aims to change all this.
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Five Hours of Airplane Landings in 30-Second Timelapse
Neat video highlights how much activity occurs at just one airport.
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EU Grounds Airline Emissions Trading Program
Is it really progress on a global airline emissions deal or objections from powerful nations that have halted the program?
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UK Conservatives Divided Over Third Runway Opposition, Again
Does the resurrection of the once settled Third Runway row at Heathrow suggest a bigger shift in Conservative thinking? Let's hope not.
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How Airports Are Embracing Solar Power
Gatwick Airport has just installed a modest solar array, with bigger things to follow. Here's Why It Matters.
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Global Airlines Call For UN Intervention To Prevent Carbon Trade War
The growing carbon trade war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program really is indicative of the continued global denial about the environmental impact of our activities.
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EU's Highest Court Gives Green Light To Charging International Airlines For Carbon Emissions
From January 1, all airlines landing in the European Union will have to participate in the emission trading program, purchasing credits for all their carbon emissions.
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Inefficient Planes and Rising Oil Prices Sunk American Airlines
Old, inefficient planes, along with rising labor costs, sunk the nation's erstwhile largest airline.
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Nation's First Cooking Oil-Fueled Commercial Flight Takes Off from Seattle
And I'm on board. Right now.
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Alaska Airlines to Fly 75 Planes on 20% Cooking Oil-Based Fuel Starting Later this Week
The biofuel blend is only a small step in the right direction, but it shows that it is possible to operate airplanes without fossil fuels.
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European Union Court Adviser Backs Plan to Include Airlines In Emissions Trading Scheme
The airline industry is supposed to join the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—already a requirement for other heavily polluting industries—in January, but the industry has been fighting the requirement.
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Ask Pablo: Will iPads in the Cockpit Really Lower Airlines' Paper Use?
Photo by comedy_nose via Flickr CC Dear Pablo: Two airlines have recently switched from paper flight records to iPads. Is this really an environmental improvement? TreeHugger recently covered news of two airlines (, followed by United Continental) that
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Lufthansa Will Become First Airline Using Biofuels On A Commercially Scheduled Route
photo: Andres Rueda/Creative Commons Lufthansa looks set to make aviation history: Using biofuels on a regularly scheduled route. From July 15, one Lufthansa Airbus A321 will ply the 244 miles route from Frankfurt to Hamburg with one engine burning
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If Airlines & Passengers Can't Afford To Pay For Their Emissions, We Can't Afford To Fly At All
The European Union's long-coming plan to include foreign-based airlines in its carbon trading scheme is scheduled to begin in January 2012, which would make all airlines flying to and from Europe to paying for their
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Stunning Kite Aerial Photography Means No Airplane Required (Slideshow)
Earthbound photographers are capable of capturing incredible images—and digital technology allows even hobby photographers to create images that transcend human perception—but sometimes, a simple
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More Palm Oil Questions: Finnair Halts Biofuel Introduction, As Malaysia's Forests Fall For Farming
Two on palm oil, from Finland and Malaysia: State-owned airline Finnair has announced that it will not begin using aviation biofuel on some of its routes this year as previously planned. Part of the reason is the
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IndiGo Air Greens Fleet with Airbus "Neo" Jets
An Indian low-cost airline, IndiGo, has been the first buyer of 150 Airbus A320neo fuel-efficient jets, not only expanding its currently modest
