Posted on February 25, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard

Good news if you’re due to fly in or out or even over Ireland in the next week.  The Irish airport strike by air traffic controllers scheduled for Thursday has been called off. The strike would have affected all flights in and out of Ireland, as well as flights using Irish air space. IMPACT, the [...]

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard

The first tentative steps towards greener air travel were taken last night when Virgin Atlantic launched a Boeing 747 partly powered by biofuels extracted from coconut oil on a test flight from London .  The flight was the first of its kind and took off on Sunday from London on a short trip to Amsterdam.  [...]