The airline was established in as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between London and the Falkland Islands. Soon after changing the name to Virgin Atlantic Airways, Fields sold his shares in the company after disagreements with Sir Richard Branson over the management of the company. It is administratively separate from other Virgin-branded airlines. Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean , Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main bases in London Heathrow and Gatwick , and its secondary base at Manchester.
Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech sustainable fuel project takes flight
Lanzatech and Virgin Atlantic | Virgin Atlantic
Skip to main content. Virgin has always been at the forefront of disruptive new technology and ideas, which help us do business differently and champion change. The fuel will be used in one of our much-loved s on a flight from Orlando to London Gatwick, demonstrating the art of the possible, and taking a landmark leap towards making this ground-breaking new low carbon technology a mainstream reality. Since , Virgin Atlantic has been working with LanzaTech to pioneer technology that captures and recycles carbon-rich industrial waste gases from steel mills into ethanol — gases that would otherwise go up the chimney into the atmosphere.
The flight from Orlando in Florida was a world first and a landmark step towards making commercially-viable sustainable aviation fuel a reality. The aircraft was flown using LanzaTech jet fuel, the first time this technology had been used on a commercial flight. Passengers on the historic flight were welcomed by a familiar face on arrival as Sir Richard Branson marshalled the aircraft into stand. LanzaTech takes these waste, carbon-rich gases to first make ethanol. The ethanol can be used for a range of low carbon products, including jet fuel.
Sir Richard Branson aims to introduce a "green aviation fuel" on Virgin Atlantic aircraft within three years claiming "one of the most exciting developments of our lifetime and a major breakthrough in the war on carbon". His company hopes to help convert waste gases from industrial steel production into a jet propuslion that could ultimately account for nearly a fifth of the present annual global consumption of aviation fuel. The plan to recycle gases that would otherwise be burnt into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide caught environmental campaigners by surprise but Friends of the Earth FoE gave the idea a cautious welcome since it would not raise the same land use problems as a Virgin biofuel experiment using coconut oil more than three years ago. Branson said: "With oil running out, it is important that new fuel solutions are sustainable and, with the steel industry alone able to deliver over 15bn gallons of jet fuel annually, the potential is very exciting. He announced the plans to partner with low-carbon development firm LanzaTech at a press conference in London.
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