Friday, November 11, 2011

Alaska Airlines flies planes fueled by cooking oil

Alaska Airlines is launching a jet fueled by cooking oil.The airline launched two flights yesterday running on a blend  of 20 percent biofuel and 80 percent petroleum-based fuel, made from cooking oil. The flight was from Seatle to Washington D.C.
Both planes were launched as part of a program to fly more than 75 flights on a cooking oil based biofuel  on Alaska Air's Alaskan Airlines and Horizon Air carriers.


















By: Candace Lombardi
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-57322275-54/alaska-airlines-flies-planes-fueled-by-cooking-oil/?tag=txt;title