Airbus is teaming with Honeywell Aerospace, US domestic carrier Jetblue Airways, International Aero Engines (IAE) and Honeywell fuel company UOP to set about developing so-called ‘second generation’ biofuels which would not impact food crops and could provide as much as 30% of world jetfuel demand by 2030.
At a media briefing in Toulouse the airframer […]

Singapore Airlines (SIA) expects to phase out its remaining Boeing 747-400 passenger within around three years and is all but ruling out ordering the 747-8 freighter to replace its 747-400 freighters.
CEO Chew Choon Seng told analysts at a briefing this week following the release of fiscal 2007/8 financial results that “I think we would […]

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has opted against taking a substantial bonus payment for achieving performance targets, following the problematic opening of London Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
Walsh is understood to have been in line to receive up to £700,000 ($1.4 million) if BA fulfilled a set of financial and service criteria.
The carrier generated […]

Airport pilot programs and environmentally tailored research and development funding are among the provisions tucked into US FAA reauthorization legislation.
While US FAA reauthorization remains questionable this year - a house version of the bill passed but its senate counterpart failed again last week - environmental projects could be included in future initiatives.
If […]

Work has begun at Eurocontrol on enabling integration of unmanned air vehicles into the air traffic management system as it is now, but also into future…