Sustainability

The commitment by IATA member airlines at the AGM in Boston in 2021 to be carbon net zero by 2050 was remarkable.

Activists breached security at EBACE to make their point at the static display.

France’s ban on domestic flights on routes for which rail alternatives of less than 2.5 hr. exist has taken effect as part of French efforts to decarbonize.

Technology being hatched under Europe’s newly launched Clean Aviation aeronautics research program could help decarbonize business aviation.

Demand for sustainable aviation fuel is growing within the business aviation sphere, with securing supply still the real challenge.

Airport caps and route cuts are becoming European governments’ go-to environmental tools, even if they don’t work.

Sustainability, the future of flight and the latest in innovation and products will be the key focus of EBACE 2023.

Neste has officially opened its Singapore SAF plant, which promises to bring total SAF products in the city-state to one million tons annually.

Cosmic is targeting entry into service in 2028 using batteries with a specific energy of 300 Wh/kg at the pack level.

The European airframer has reached an agreement with Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company.

Boeing is asking suppliers for help defining a SAF type fluid for testing a wide range of components from simple seals to entire engines.

Ultimately, Bombardier plans to complete EPDs on all its jets by 2025.

AI in aviation; flying hydrogen lab; Seoul’s UAM routes; and Alder’s fuel progresses.

First flight tests are planned as early as 2024.

The group includes several airports, smaller airfields, regional economic partners and other organizations around the Baltic Sea region.

Passengers say they care about the environmental effects of flying, but don’t seem willing to change their behavior.

Sebright speaks with Aviation Week editors about the countries’ evolving relationship in defense and aerospace.

Iberia Airport Services (IBAS) invested more than €100 million ($110 million) to achieve net zero emissions in airport services operations by 2025.

Emirates' Tim Clark warns that commercial aviation emission reduction goals will not be met with existing pathways as he is injecting $200 million into eco-R&D.

The U.S. startup has commissioned a pilot-production unit, or skid, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado.

Honeywell has launched processing technology to produce eSAF via their UOP eFining methanol-to-jet process that converts e-methanol to eSAF at high yields.

Newly crowned British monarch King Charles III broke ground on May 9 on the new UK research facility.

Daher is pushing for the adoption of thermoplastics in larger parts, citing multiple research and technology programs.

eVTOL noise rules; Adaptive drone wings; Assuring autonomy; and A220 on 100% SAF.

European airlines fear that the cost of compliance will put them at a disadvantage.