Sustainability

Ask the Editors: Hydrogen propulsion offers a significant opportunity to reduce carbon emissions, but major challenges lie ahead.

Given the huge financial stresses of the COVID-19 crisis, one might expect environmental concerns to drop well down the agenda for aftermarket

Etihad Airways has joined the £65 million Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) consortium, due to open next year at Cranfield University in the UK.

A research programme has seen Etihad Airways, Boeing, NASA and Safran banding together to reduce noise emissions from future generations of airliners. Alan Dron has been finding out more.

Etihad Airways is the UAE’s first airline to implement electronic technical logs (eTech logs) for airline operations.

The air transport industry welcomed a change in calculating emissions offsets; environmental campaigners are not convinced.

Fuel cells may be more suited to smaller commercial aircraft, while larger ones would retain turbine engines.

Daniel Koechler, general manager of North American Aerospace Industries Corp., a provider of aircraft recycling solutions, and its affiliate, Aircraft

Guy Norris and Joe Anselmo discuss how the project to develop the 21st Century’s first civil supersonic airliner is moving forward and have their questions answered by Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl.

Earlier this week France unveiled a €15 billion package to support its aerospace industry through and after the COVID-19 crisis.

IATA’s CEO Alexandre de Juniac said during this week’s media briefing that airlines continue to burn through cash.

Etihad Airways has provided details of its first half-year 2020 performance, which saw a strong start to the year, with the airline progressing well ahead of its transformation plan targets.

The Arabian Travel Market has officially announced the launch of ATM Virtual, a three-day event that will take place from 1-3 June 2020.

Carbon recycler LanzaTech has launched a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) spinoff, LanzaJet, with $25 million in backing from Canadian and Japanese investors.

More bad news for South African Aerospace as Comair announces it is unlikely to start operating again before November this year.

Alexandre de Juniac, director Ggeneral and CEO of IATA, attended at CAPA Aeropolitical and Regulatory Summit yesterday and delivered a keynote speech regarding raising the profile of regulatory affairs.

Lockheed Martin will again accelerate payments of US$300m to small critical suppliers. Nicolas Jouan, Aerospace and Defence Analyst at GlobalData offers his view on Lockheed’s decision.

Ask the Editors: Sustainable aviation fuels are technically viable today; it is their economic viability that remains in question.

Etihad Airways has announced a 32% improvement in core operating performance for 2019, on revenues of US$ 5.6 billion (2018: US$ 5.9 billion).

The first day of the CAPA Qatar Aviation, Aeropolitical and Regulatory Summit has kicked off on Wednesday 5 February at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar.

Cornwell Muleya is no stranger to African aviation, after gaining senior leadership experience at Air Botswana, Air Tanzania, Air Mauritius and Zambezi Airlines. As Victoria Moores reports, his latest challenge has been setting up Uganda Airlines, an ambitious new national carrier, which launched operations in 2019 and plans to go long-haul in 2021.

Airlines are looking ahead to how the coronavirus crisis will affect efforts to reduce environmental impact.

Airbus nudges the RACER first flight to the fourth quarter of 2021, citing program management complexity for the high-speed rotorcraft.

How the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry will fare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 impact on commercial aviation is far from clear. But most

Tunisia’s transport minister Anouar Maarouf has warned that Tunisair’s air transport industry is unlikely to recover before summer 2021, reports Romuald Touembou Ngueyap.