Airline Industry News - Environmental

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that Tim Noonan, vice president of Boeing Energy, has joined the Leadership Council of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). - More

‘GREEN’ is on the Move. Impact Enterprises, Inc. contracts to manufacture eco-friendly menu covers for the world’s leading international entertainment company. - More

Project with Port of Seattle, Boeing and FAA aims to reduce aircraft fuel consumption, greenhouse gases and noise through improved airport approaches - More

An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night. - More

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has installed 23 high-concentration photovoltaic solar power panels at a 100-kilowatt power facility being built by Boeing on the campus of California State University, Northridge. - More

The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced today that they will work together to speed the development and application of environmentally progressive technologies for cleaner and quieter jet aircraft. - More

Boeing Apache helicopter becomes the 1st rotorcraft to fly on sustainable bio-kerosene - More

Sustainability has received a great deal of attention from the media and the business community for a number of years. Yet there are still those that believe sustainability is more of a public relations play than an issue with real implications for business performance. What does sustainability really mean in a business context? What are many co... - More

United Airlines will become the first airline to conduct two trans-Atlantic flights using state-of-the-art flight planning to reduce environmental impact and save fuel. The flights, which will be flown on June 5, 2010 – World Environment Day, as designated by the United Nations – will save nearly 6,400 pounds of fuel and will reduce ca... - More

Air Canada, the largest full-service airline in Canada, and Zerofootprint, a leading organization in the global fight against climate change, today announced the expansion of the bilingual Voluntary Carbon Offset program, providing customers that want to minimize the environmental impact of their air travel with two new ISO-14064 certified carbo... - More