Sustainability

The slotted transonic airfoil—studied by NASA is the 1960s to delay drag rise and enable higher cruise speeds—will debut on Otto’s Phantom 3500 business jet.

Brussels Airport is calling for the protection of sustainable development as the Balanced Approach procedure for noise reduction gets underway.

Carbon Analysis assesses how some major U.S. low-cost carriers have performed, efficiency-wise, in 2025, namely JetBlue, Frontier, Allegiant and Southwest.

Manufacturing of hardware has begun for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s long-planned hybrid-electric propulsion flight demonstrator, a heavily modified Dash 8-100.

EcoCeres has opened its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Pasir Gudang, Johor, marking Malaysia’s first SAF production plant.

The University of Oxford study highlights the potential for efficiency-focused policy to cut aviation fuel use without affecting capacity.

As Airbus continues to review airframe and propulsion options for its NGSA A320 successor, it details key priorities driving its technology selection decisions.

Demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Southeast Asia is set to increase nearly ninefold by 2040, according to the ASEAN SAF 2050 Outlook report.

AEG Fuels announced a new agreement to provide Jet A and SAF at high-demand business aviation locations served by fixed-base operator Jet Aviation.

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed a six-year offtake agreement with global commodities supplier and fuel distributor Trafigura.

After the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol flight cap debate, airport noise reduction is in focus across Europe.

Hybrid regional propulsion advances, Windracers pushes scheduled cargo drones, and Luminary speeds uncrewed combat designs.

Discussions are underway within Europe’s Clean Aviation program as to the scope and content of the next public-private research initiative.

Last year's total emissions relating to passenger ops began to decelerate for the first time since the pandemic; 2026's total passenger emissions could be less.

Environmental group Transport & Environment has called for targeted contrail mitigation on winter transatlantic night flights, based on a new data analysis.

The UK government is to provide up to £43 million ($58 million) in funding to support green aviation projects including the development of hydrogen-powered aircraft and research into avoiding contrails.

A project to build a SAF production facility in the Middle East has secured funding, with developers aiming to break ground later this year.

A new research paper on global aviation emissions says efficiency-focused policy could swiftly reduce fuel use without limiting air transport capacity.

In line with MRO Latin America 2026, Carbon Analysis studies the operators it assessed last year at this time: Avianca Group, Azul, Gol and LATAM Group.

Norsk e-Fuel has been approved for a €150 million tax credit from Business Finland.

The European Commission is set to give its verdict on the international emissions trading scheme—and could propose considerable changes to the European system.

Norsk e-Fuel plans to collaborate with Outokumpu to use carbon monoxide from ferrochrome production in Finland as a feedstock for power-to-liquid SAF.

VP Racing and LyondellBasell announced that standards organization ASTM International has issued a first specification for their UL100E unleaded avgas.

XCF Global has signed an MOU to evaluate the use of small modular nuclear reactors for the power-to-liquid production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

The Zero Engine Taxi eTaxi system electrically drives one of the aircraft’s main landing gear wheel sets using power from the auxiliary power unit.