November 18, 2014
Kenya Airways passengers can help protect wildlife, save rural communities and preserve over 500,000 acres of forest by signing up to the airline’s carbon offsetting programme. Carbon offsetting is a way for airline passengers to offset their proportion of an aircraft’s carbon emissions on a particular journey by investing in carbon reduction projects; joining the scheme is as simple as ticking a box when booking a flight.
November 17, 2014
The UK national air navigation service provider, NATS, has released an amazing visualisation of a day in the life of the UK airspace it oversees.
November 10, 2014
Congratulations to Thomson Airways which has won the ‘Best Aviation Programme for Carbon Reduction’ at the World Responsible Tourism Awards, held at London’ s World Travel Market 2014 on Wednesday 5 November.
November 05, 2014
It is fairly common in many parts of the world to see rabbits hopping about the grassy areas of an airport while passenger jets taxi nearby but Chicago O’Hare has taken this to the next level entirely by encouraging a wide range of ruminants to keep the airport’s grass in check. In fact, a cardboard cut-out of one of O’Hare’s llama population became the star of this week’s Airports Going Green conference in the city.
November 04, 2014
Aviation organisations worldwide are increasing their efforts to attract new recruits to the aviation industry. A July 2014 report from Boeing suggests that 533,000 new commercial airline pilots and 584,000 new maintenance technicians will be needed to fly and maintain the world fleet over the next 20 years.
