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January 12, 2009
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Each month ATW's Eco-Aviation Today brings you the latest environmental news and trends affecting the world’s airlines and tell you how the air transport industry is working to reduce its impact on the planet. Do you have friends or colleagues who might find this information useful? If so, please forward this newsletter along to them or click here to sign them up. JAL to test new biofuel Japan Airlines will conduct a test flight using biofuel refined from the energy crop camellina on Jan. 30. A blend of 50% biofuel and 50% Jet-A will be tested in one of the four Pratt & Whitney JT9Ds on a JAL-owned 747-300. [MORE] Air New Zealand proves viability of jatropha biofuel Air New Zealand successfully conducted the world's first sustainable biofuel test flight. [MORE] Continental follows with algae Continental Airlines followed Air New Zealand's historic trip into the record books a week later by making the first flight on Jan. 7 of a commercial transport partially powered by a fuel derived from algae. [MORE] A jatropha factory down under? Australia is emerging as a possible major source of feedstocks for second-generation biofuel such as the hardy jatropha curcas. Speaking to media after the first successful sustainable biofuel test flight, Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe suggested that the massive arid regions of northern Australia would be an ideal region for cultivation. [MORE] Emirates cites five years of savings with Flex Tracks Emirates has saved almost 10 million liters of jet fuel and 772 hr. of flight time in the five years since working with Airservices Australia, the country's air navigation services provider, to pioneer the flight route planning and airspace management program known as Flex Tracks. Emirates said that over the five years the fuel saving of 9.6 million liters (equivalent to approximately 351 tanker trucks) resulted in a reduction of 26,644 tons of CO2 and 163 tons of NOx. [MORE]
Other News *Sustainable Aviation, projects that CO2 emissions from air traffic will fall back to 2000 levels by 2050 *Emirates successfully launched what it called the world's longest green flight *Japan Airlines teamed up with Recycle One [MORE] |
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