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Facing economic woes over surging oil prices, 12 CEO's of major airline carriers issued a signed plea to frequent flyer customers urging their support for regulation of oil speculators.  Short-sighted and priofit-hungry, one again the airlines look for the easy way out.  Regulating oil speculators is not going to solve the ultimate problem of the industry's fossil fuel gluttony.

Despite intensive lobbying from the airline industry in Europe, the EU parliament voted 96% for the industry to be included in the Carbon trading program.

Nancy Young, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Air Transport Association, is interviewed about airline industry adoption of alternative fuels, from both fuel economy and environmental perspectives, as the industry looks to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

If we are all outraged by gas prices these days imagine how airlines are feeling. Rising fuel cost has gotten so bad that the largest expense of these airlines is now fuel so they are taking action. Believe it or not they are doing more than cutting flights to save fuel; they are trying to lose weight.

EU delivers ultimatum to US airlines

Virgin Atlantic has become the world's first airline to fly on biofuel from London Heathrowto Amsterdam.The airline flew one of its Boeing 747s using a sustainable type of biofuel based on coconut and babassu oil - the first time in the world that an airline has run this biofuel in-flight.

Richard Branson is pumping investment into biofuels for his Virgin Airlines. But if the US alone used over 19 billion gallons of jet fuel last year, just how much rainforest would need to be cleared to make that much fuel?

An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world's first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid fuel processed from gas (Gas to Liquids - GTL) in the first stage of a test flight programme to evaluate the environmental impact of alternative fuels in the airline market.

Bizarre non-sequitor "tech support" or green way of the future?

In the global warming context, some thing the airlines' reputation (because of their emissions) could sink to that of cigarette manufacturers.

Boeing and Virgin Atlantic announce a new partnership for more environmentally-friendly and reduced carbon air transit, including Virgin’s purchase of the more fuel-efficient Boeing 787 Dreamliner and future use of alternative fuels.