Sustainability

Emirates has revealed that nearly a third of its dedicated fleet of transport buses for cabin crew in Dubai will now operate on biofuel, taking another step forward on its environmental mission to reduce emissions.

Airlines are under more pressure than ever before to step up efforts to reduce their impact on climate change.

Increasingly detailed work continues to show efficiency benefits from the incremental hybridization of aircraft propulsion

More airlines are buying sustainable fuel and more production capacity is coming on line, but cost remains a major issue.

Airlines For America’s Nancy Young says the industry is making huge strides in making aviation cleaner. Is it enough? Listen in – and then you decide.

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Tempo of Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program to accelerate amid renewed focus on sustainability and advanced technology initiatives.

Boeing’s EcoDemonstrator initiative is part of a greater focus on advanced operational efficiency and long-term sustainable growth.

U.S. developing scientific license agreements for commercial satellite data

The U.S. military must confront climate change head-on by adapting to extreme weather and developing resiliency.

Zero waste is a philosophy that’s encouraging people to recycle and re-use. Airlines in the Middle East have taken initiatives to slash waste and the use of plastic on board aircraft. Anuradha Deenapanray and Vincent Chappard report.

Airlines have seen fast growth since 2010, victims of their own success as fight against climate change moves to forefront.

Qatar’s Hamad International Airport has unveiled plans for its Phase II expansion programme, designed to boost the airport’s capacity to more than 50 million passengers annually. Alan Dron reports.

Air France KLM group was the winner of the Sustainability award for 2018 at the third annual Dubai Airports Excellence Awards held at Soho Beach Meydan, on 22 April 2019.

The world met in Madrid in December at the United Nations COP25 summit to discuss climate change and emissions reduction. Given the sharply increased

Electric and hybrid power makes inroads as engine-makers face continuing challenges in commercial and military sectors.

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced its Savannah-based fleet has flown more than 1 million nautical miles/1.85 million kilometers on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

French start-up, Multi Access Electric Air Mobility (MAEAM), launched a new “disruptive” aircraft programme at EBACE.

Why the time is now for commercial aviation to take steps to reduce its carbon footprint.

South African Airways (SAA) and its wholly-owned subsidiary and low cost carrier, Mango Airlines, made history in 2016 as the first two airlines in Africa to operate commercial flights respectively, which were powered by sustainable aviation fuel produced from Sunchem’s nicotine-free tobacco plant, Solaris.

The R&D programs underway to transition the aviation industry to a net-zero carbon producer.

By Alexandre de Juniac. It’s no secret that aviation has come in for a good deal of scrutiny and criticism over its environmental impacts. The flight shaming phenomenon and proposals for a Green New Deal that would reduce and even replace air travel with other modes of transport have been in the news around the world, not just in Europe and the United States, where they respectively originated.

Africa’s most prestigious aviation event heads to Ethiopia for the first time, as Michael de Klerk reports.

Finnair is asserting that sustainability will be a key driver for its 2020-2025 strategy period, with its long-awaited decision for a new narrowbody fleet as the most significant contributor to the airline’s agenda.

South African Airways (SAA) has taken delivery of the first of four new Airbus A350-900s.