Aviation

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It’s Oscar time! For the airlines, that is. Air travelers have again voted Finnair the Best Airline in Northern Europe at the World Airline Awards by Skytrax in 2022. This is the 12th consecutive time that Finnair has received this recognition. Perhaps it’s time to put this gem on your radar screen. The World Airline Awards by Skytrax is the world’s largest, annual airline passenger satisfaction survey, also known as the Oscars of the aviation industry. The survey analyses customer satisfaction for the overall airline customer experience, at both the airport and on board the aircraft. “We are delighted to get this recognition that speaks of the dedication of every Finnair employee to create a frictionless travel experience for our customers,” says Tiina Tissari, Vice President, Customer Experience and Products at Finnair. “Our operating environment has not been easy over the past two years, but our focus has always … [Read more...] about Finnair Recognized Again As The Best Airline In Northern Europe

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin You park your rented electric car at a waterfront charging station and step onto a driverless, silent ferry to a nearby island for a brunch of local, sustainably-sourced seafood. Later that day, you board an all-electric passenger ferry for a cruise along one of the world’s most desired tourist attractions: the Norwegian fjords. In the evening, you return the car and board a small battery-powered flight to Oslo or Bergen. In the minds of many, such a sustainable travel itinerary is as far off into the future as the 2050 net-zero target shared by many in the travel industry. Yet in Norway, it’s on the verge of reality. Over the last few years, more new all-electric cars have been sold in Norway than any other type combined , including hybrids. While this has attracted international media attention, the country’s other developments are flying under the radar. If electric planes take to the skies as expected within … [Read more...] about Norway’s Electric Travel Revolution Goes Far Beyond Cars

Passengers flying out of Denver International Airport each contribute up to a ton of heat-trapping carbon dioxide before reaching their destinations as airplanes burn fossil fuels. But those tens of millions of passengers in the future could fly without worsening climate warming if the oil-based fuels are replaced with new fuels being developed at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden. The new aviation fuels are made from a widening variety of plant and other materials — including municipal and industrial waste, algae and corn crop residues — that don’t require drilling for new oil. Federal government-backed researchers are working toward a target of producing 3 billion gallons a year of this “sustainable aviation fuel” by 2030 and 35 billion gallons by 2050 – enough to meet the projected U.S. demand as air travel at least doubles. President Joe Biden has declared aviation and shipping fuel must be carbon-neutral by 2050. The Paramount refinery in California already … [Read more...] about New fuels from federal lab in Colorado may fix one of world’s toughest climate problems

BEIJING – China’s factory activity eked out growth in September, but a slowdown in services sector growth and a downbeat private manufacturing survey pointed to further cooling as the economy grapples with COVID-19 curbs and softening export demand. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index beat expectations, helped by a series of recent easing measures, but the private Caixin survey showed factory activity contracting more quickly in September and the official survey showed a sharp slowdown in services sector activity growth. China’s government has rolled out more than 50 policy measures since late May. But the data suggested the world’s second-largest economy, also grappling with a property crisis, was struggling to regain traction after narrowly avoiding contraction in the second quarter. “The surveys suggest that China’s economy continued to lose momentum in September, with the global downturn weighing on exports and virus disruptions dealing a fresh blow to … [Read more...] about China factory activity ekes out growth, weakening global demand weighs

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Sustainable supply chains are increasingly important. Investors are concerned about how companies are managing the policy and physical impacts of climate change and recent instances are bringing this front of mind. There are significant implications both financially and socially. The COVID-19 pandemic caused one of the biggest supply chain disruptions in recent years, but extreme weather continues to cause major issues, disrupting industries in different ways in different places . No one can miss the urgency and cost, in terms of life and finance, of weather such as recently experienced through Hurricane Ian. Even today the estimated clean up costs in Florida are expected to run into the billions. Earlier in 2022 the European Environment Agency warned that floods and extreme weather have caused Europe nearly half a trillion euros in damages, with nearly 150,000 associated deaths, over the last four decades. That means … [Read more...] about DTN Uses AWS For Weather Data To Make Supply Chains More Sustainable