British Airways and Rolls-Royce ramp up biofuel effort
British Airways and Rolls-Royce have announced they will begin work on validating 10 different alternative fuel programs during 2011. For more on this announcement click here.
Qantas and Solena to investigate waste to jet fuel production in Australia
Qantas and U.S. based Solena Group have announced the signing of a letter of intent to develop a business plan over the next 12 months to investigate building a waste to jet fuel production plant in Australia. For more on … Continue reading
Finnair to become launch customer for commercial biofuel flights
Finnair is in discussions with Finland’s Neste Oil to become a launch user of sustainable jet fuels derived from logging waste. Finnair said a decision has still to be made on when the first commercial biofuel flights will take place. … Continue reading
USAF reiterates goal of 400 million gallons HRJ by 2016
The United States Air Force wants to be able to purchase several hundred million gallons of hydrotreated renewable jet fuel (HRJ) in the next 5 years. The Air Force is working to wean itself off some of the 2.5 billion … Continue reading
Lufthansa and Airbus launch world’s first commercial biofuel flights
Lufthansa has announced the world’s first ever scheduled commercial passenger flights using a fifty percent biofuel blend in the first half of 2011, the company announced. The daily flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt on an Airbus A321 aircraft will begin … Continue reading