Sustainable flying: living the pipedream

Sustainable flying: living the pipedream
Cooking oil, straw, tallow and other waste are the feedstock for next generation aviation fuel. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
There are few experiences more surreal, self-indulgent or alluring than flying halfway around the world and back again in the space of a week at somebody else’s expense.So it was that I made my way to Istanbul and back last week for the annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), where an industry frozen for two years by the covid-19 pandemic is roaring back to life.Meeting deep in the bowels of the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti hotel was a who’s who of the airline industry – the chief executives not only o...

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