Azul Airlines, Amyris, Inc.Embraer and GE announced that Amyris’ renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has successfully passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul E195. The “Azul+Verde” (a Greener Blue) flight…
We believe an area that deserves more aerospace attention is biofuels. Airlines need these fuels because they can reduce fossil fuel price volatility. Biofuels can be sourced in many places in the world. Places subject to much less political unrest…
John Heimlich is Senior Economist at the US-based Air Transport Association and explains that US airlines are primarily concerned with the scale of biofuel supply. The biggest concern with biofuel supply is its ability to provide billions of gallons of…
We spoke with ACI-NA’s Katherine Preston, Director, Environmental Affairs about how airports view the biofuels issue and what their role in the development of these fuels could be. Clearly airports are not bystanders watching the airlines. They see themselves as…
Everyone in commercial aviation (and increasingly non-commercial as well) is wondering how they can implement biofuels to be cleaner and cut fuel costs. Well it’s not that simple. It turns out there are trade offs no matter what you look…
On July 1, KLM flight 1233 from Amsterdam Schipol to Paris Charles de Gaulle operated using biokerosene on a passenger flight, becoming the first airline to do so. While a number of proving flights have been taken by various airlines…