Alaska Airlines, Boeing, airports in biofuels program
Alaska Air, Boeing, three other airports, and Washington State Univrsity will be studying the biomass option that will lead to use of biofuel.
The project, dubbed Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest, will include an analysis of potential biomass sources that are indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. Sources to be examined include algae, camelina, wood byproducts and other agriculturally based oilseeds.
Lufthansa sees CSeries fuel burn per passenger bettering A380, 747-8
Luftghansa says that it sees that the CSeries aircraft will have a better fuel burn than the 747 or the A380.
“These are numbers on our load factors, on our network and in our configurations,” Senior VP-Corporate Fleet Nico Buchholz told attendees at ATW’s Eco-Aviation Conference in Washington last month. He said the 747-8 will have a fuel burn of 3.51 liters per passenger per 100 km. while the A380 with Rolls-Royce engines, which LH also has ordered, will achieve a burn of 3.4 litersand the CSeries powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G will burn just 3.1 liters on the same basis.
Updated: airports with full-body scanners
Jaunted has come up with a list of airports with full-body scanners.
The biggest burst of recent full-body scanning comes from Texas, as they now boast of six airports—BRO, CRP, DFW, LRD, MFE, HRL— with the machines. Asia isn’t too far behind however, as the first batch of scanners arrived this month to Gimpo, Gimhae and Jeju Airports in South Korea.
Perhaps the biggest news is that even Tokyo-Narita has jumped on the bandwagon. They’ve installed five different types of the full-body scanners at airport security for a “trial period” through September 10, at which time they’ll review results and decide which machines to install, if any at all.
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