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Could human waste power the future of air travel? Wizz Air hopes so. The Hungarian airline says it’s reached a deal with a British company to work on producing sustainable jet fuel made from human waste. The biofuel company, Firefly Green Fuels, has developed a process which will convert waste from sewers into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company says it hopes to begin supplying the lower carbon power source from around 2028 and has come to an agreement with Wizz Air’s UK-based wing to provide up to 525,000 tonnes of SAF over a 15 year period. How will human waste be transformed into s...
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Domestic flights will no longer be used to transport letters by Germany’s national postal carrier. The move from Deutsche Post reflects the declining significance of letter mail and allows it to improve its climate footprint. After 63 years, the last planes carrying letters between northern and southern Germany, operated by Lufthansa unit Eurowings and Tui Fly, flew overnight on 28 March on the Stuttgart-Berlin, Hannover-Munich and Hannover-Stuttgart routes. Letters between those destinations will now be transported by road, allowing the company to reduce transport-related carbon dioxide emiss...
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US President Joe Biden is proposing a huge increase in fuel taxes for private jets. It is being pitched as a fairness issue compared with airline passengers, who pay special taxes on every ticket. The proposal was included in a $109.3 billion (€100b) budget request for the US Department of Transportation, which was released on Monday. The fate of the proposal in Congress is unclear. Many of Biden's budget ideas will flounder in the Republican-controlled House. The largest business-aviation trade group came out against the targeted fuel-tax increase, saying private jets help companies succeed a...
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As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand, a passenger on Tuesday described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane's ceiling. At least 50 people were injured on Monday by what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” on the Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner later landed at Auckland Airport as scheduled and was due to continue on to Santiago, Chile. “The plane, unannounced, just dropp...
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The recent Alaska Airlines incident is just the latest in a string of sometimes tragic mishaps by the aircraft manufacturer – where did it all go wrong? On 5 January, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 lost a fuselage cabin panel at 4,900 metres and was forced to conduct an emergency landing, fortunately without any major injuries to passengers and crew. Still under investigation, it seems that the panel in question (provided by a Boeing partner, Spirit AeroSystems) had not been properly bolted to the fuselage, a major manufacturing defect and quality-control oversight. Loose parts were soon ...
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Greta Thunberg fronted a march against the expansion of Farnborough Airport in England this weekend. The Swedish climate activist joined hundreds of local residents and other campaigners outside the airport in Hampshire on Saturday, at a march organised by Extinction Rebellion. Farnborough Airport has been the site of numerous protests since it applied last year to increase its maximum number of annual flights from 50,000 to 70,000. “The fact that using private jets is both legally and socially allowed today in an escalating climate emergency is completely detached from reality,” Thunberg said...
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A major travel search engine is giving people the option of excluding flights using Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft from its results. Kayak added the aircraft to an existing filter after a piece of fuselage blew out of a Max 9 plane during an Alaska Airlines flight. The online travel agent says it has seen a jump in users wanting to avoid the airliners since the incident earlier this month. Kayak began allowing customers to filter out certain aircraft back in 2019. Why do people avoid flying on certain planes?“[The company] introduced its aircraft filter in March 2019 following safety concerns aroun...
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Ten leading U.S. airline executives have announced that thousands of flights could be delayed due to 5G technology that the telecommunications industry has been trying to roll out for months. They wrote a letter to the Biden Administration asking them to further delay the launch. “The ripple effects across both passenger and cargo operations, our workforce and the broader economy are simply incalculable,” the executives wrote. “To be blunt, the nation’s commerce will grind to a halt.” 5G will be the fastest network ever, allowing users to upload and download information at never-seen-before sp...
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