Inside Travel Technology Update - Sept. 13, 2013

Solena Fuels hopes to enter negotiations with Qantas after completing a joint study showing the feasibility of building a waste-to-biofuel facility in Sydney.

Thai Airways has removed its Airbus A330-300 from runway 19L at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.

FAA has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for alternate jet fuels and the environment.

News from Travel Technology Update: Airlines have become adept at using technology to re-accommodate passengers whose flights are disrupted.

Airlines for America (A4A) VP-environmental affairs Nancy Young said Thursday she was confident that significant progress will be made at the upcoming ICAO Assembly toward achieving a single, global market-based measures agreement for airlines.

Alternative aviation fuels provide the best opportunity—as compared to technological and air traffic management solutions—to decrease airlines’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) executive director Steve Csonka.

Jetstar Hong Kong chairman Pansy Ho has defended the carrier’s license application in response to objections from local carriers, including Cathay Pacific Airways, on grounds it is not a Hong Kong-based airline.