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World's first "passenger flight on biofuel"
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 3 days ago
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We have demonstrated that it is possible," KLM chief executive officer Peter Hartman said after the flight, which took off and landed at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam. "Government, industry and society at large must now join forces to ensure that we...
Tags: Netherlands, Amsterdam, KLM, Jatropha, Continental Airlines, Airline, Jet fuel, Disaster Accident, Air France-KLM, Biofuels, Alternative propulsion, Sustainable biofuel, Peter Hartman, Business Finance, Sustainable transport, Environment
Brazil airline company to test sugar-based aviation fuel
Campinas :: Brazil | 7 days ago
Credibility Brazil's Azul Airlines will conduct a demo flight by 2012 to test a sugar-based aviation fuel manufactured by a US firm, the company has announced. The flight will mark the culmination of a project to evaluate the technical and sustainability aspects...
Tags: jet fuel, Amyris Biotechnologies Inc, Brazil, renewable jet, aviation fuel, Azul Airlines, derived jet, Campinas, Ethanol fuel, Amyris Biotech, Fuels, Ethanol, Liquid fuels, Biofuels, Alternative propulsion, Environment
The weekly debate
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 8 days ago
Credibility The greatest stock picker of all time, Warren Buffett, once joked that if investors had the power to go back in time, they would shoot the Wright Brothers to stop the airplane from being invented. Large, cumbersome, laden with overheads and red tape,...
Tags: Dubai Airshow, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Jet fuel, Low-cost carrier, Airline, Alternative fuel
Green energy can power 15% of flights by 2020
Doha :: Qatar | 9 days ago
Credibility Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday. "If we get the right sources, it is possible that 15 percent of the world's jet fuel will...
Tags: alternative fuels, Qatar, Doha, Alternative fuel, Qatar Airways, Aviation biofuel, Synthetic fuel, Jet aircraft, Airbus, Jet fuel, Environment
Air Force building jet-fuel test facility
Dayton :: OH :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility A new $2.5 million facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will allow the Air Force to conduct research designed to help produce alternative fuels for military aircraft. Construction started last week for the new Assured Aerospace Fuels Research Facility...
Tags: Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Tim Edwards, Dayton, Gasoline, Alternative propulsion, Edwards Air Force Base, Jet fuel, Alternative fuel
ATF hike may undo airlines' austerity gains
New Delhi :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility With crude oil prices headed north again, state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corp, Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp on Sunday hiked aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by around 2.4%. With this, ATF prices will increase...
Tags: ATF, India, New Delhi, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Jet fuel, Airline, Petroleum, energy crisis, Commodities market, Oils, Price of petroleum, Business Finance
Costly fuel import to cost BPC extra Tk 50cr
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 13 days ago
Credibility The BPC in recent years purchased petroleum products from several countries to meet the country's petroleum needs of 3.5 million tonnes. In the past the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) had been the main supplier of BPC till it started charging high...
Tags: BPC, Petco, Philippines National Oil Company, Maldives National Oil Company, Malaysian, jet fuel, KPC, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Fuels, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Petroleum, Petron Corporation, Gasoline, Petroleum products, Liquid fuels, Oils, Business Finance
China announces new pricing mechanism of fuel surcharge
Beijing :: China | 13 days ago
Credibility China's jet fuel comprehensive purchasing costs. The new mechanism, which would take effect on Nov. 14, aims to "help the airlines with fluctuating fuel prices", as jet fuel costs usually account for 40 percent of the total costs of China's airline...
Tags: jet fuel, fuel surcharge, China, purchasing cost, comprehensive purchasing, fuel comprehensive, price mechanism, airline companies, fuel cost, Beijing
?I think private airlines grew too fast?
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility In his second stint as Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel has had to face several challenges-a slowdown in the sector, Air India's bailout package and aggressive private airlines. In this Idea Exchange moderated by Chief of Bureau Pranab Dhal Samanta,...
Tags: jet fuel, Praful Patel, Air India, New Delhi, aviation minister, fuel price
Airport fuel shortage probed
Energy :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A task team has been set up to investigate what led to the shortage of jet fuel at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday. "The team will investigate the problem and come up with mechanisms that will...
Tags: task team, jet fuel, fuel shortages
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