Safran e-taxi update
It has been some time since we last heard about any e-taxi news from Safran. But it seems something is cooking. Safran was partnering with Honeywell but is now moving forward on its own. The solution is to power the…
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e-Taxi update
It has been a while since we last heard about this part of the industry. Low fuel costs pushed it down people’s consciousness. Now that fuel prices are rising again, its coming back. Since the last fuel price spike,…
The correlation between airline ground time and profits
Airlines know that fast turnarounds mean profits – Southwest advertised ten-minute turns back in 1982. While there have been various claims about turnaround times, there has been a shortage of data to help determine just how important this factor is…
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A Flight Ops Challenge – And the case for E-Taxi documented
E-taxi pioneers Wheeltug just released research (ground operations summary 31 Mar 2016) it undertook monitoring airport operations. The case for adding e-taxi capabilities to aircraft has tended to focus on saving fuel burn. But fuel burn is no longer such…
easyJet working on e-Taxi
easyJet unveiled plans for a revolutionary zero emissions hydrogen fuel system for its aircraft which could save around 50,000 tonnes of fuel and the associated CO2 emissions per year. The hybrid concept utilizes a hydrogen fuel cell stowed in the…