Achieving an ICAO-based global emissions trading agreement by the fall 2013 deadline will be difficult, IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler told a Washington DC audience in April....More
United Airlines has put in place a set of initiatives to save 85 million gallons of fuel in 2013, equivalent to 828,750 metric tons of CO2 or roughly $275 million at current fuel prices. ...More
European lawmakers are finalizing legislation supporting the decision to suspend the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme ahead of an April carbon permit surrender deadline....More
Lufthansa Technik has joined Airbus and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) on a two-year research project that is testing the viability of coatings that could make aircraft more efficient.
A new varnish, developed by IFAM in Bremen, attempts to mimic the skin of fast-swimming sharks....More
Abdul Teffaha, who heads the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO), has written off the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), labelling it as “dead”.
“The EU ETS is dead as far as we are concerned. What we are looking for is to try to get a global scheme through ICAO,” Teffaha said at the Aviation Carbon 2013 conference in London in mid-February....More
The US should look to what’s happening at airports worldwide and think bigger and more strategically about how its airports can best raise the investments necessary to keep them competitive on a global scale, the head of the Airports Council International said Monday....More
Governments must put more political will into sorting out air traffic management mega-projects and also addressing the political issue of finding a global agreement for emission market-based-measures (MBMs), the head of IATA said Monday....More
Airbus, Air Canada and BioFuelNet Canada have formed a partnership to assess Canadian solutions for the production of sustainable jet fuels with a long-term goal of supplying Air Canada....More
US regional airlines are increasingly concerned about a potential pilot shortage that could curtail their growth or even force carriers to decrease capacity....More
Preliminary results of a pilot fatigue study conducted by Washington State University (WSU) show there is a “small difference” between the fatigue level of pilots conducting multi-segment operations and those flying a longer single segment....More
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