Airlines in the Virgin Group are collaborating to see if they could develop and share aviation biofuels at their common port of Los Angeles International airport.
The airlines - V Australia, Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic - have significant stage length operations at Los Angeles that would permit them to maximise bio-derived jet fuel deployment at a single, shared location.
"We're working with the other Virgin airlines - Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic - to look at what we can do in LA," said David White, the sustainability and climate change manager for Virgin Australia, which includes long-haul affiliate V Australia.
"That's one synergy which we're concentrating on because we're all flying into LA. We're checking out 'What can we do there?'"
Collaboration with other airlines or biofuel consortia are also options for Virgin Group, he said.
Source: Flight International
