Sustainability

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) momentum is growing.

The carrier scrapped a previous emissions offset program in 2020.

A public-private initiative launched at EU level says it is relevant to focus CO2-minimizing technologies on short- and medium-haul flights—essentially, narrowbodies—because that segment emits most of the industry’s CO2 globally.

Citing the need to loosen Russia’s grip on Europe’s energy supply, Denmark’s government has announced a series of measures to accelerate the production of green fuels from renewable energy, including synthetic e-kerosene for aviation.

Qantas is the latest airline to sign a long-term offtake agreement with U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) startup Aemetis.

Norway’s air passenger tax could be replaced with a new form of taxation that takes the environmental impact of flying into account.

The Scandinavian country’s exiting air passenger tax looks set to be overhauled.

The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) has unveiled three zero-carbon airliner concepts developed under the UK government’s FlyZero project which aims to support the accelerated introduction of hydrogen-powered aircraft.

The zero-emission propulsion startup Hydrogen is to locate manufacturing and distribution of its modular hydrogen capsules and assembly of regional-aircraft powertrain retrofit kits at the New Mexico facility.

Can Rolls-Royce restore the Trent 1000’s reputation and arrest a slide of the engine’s aftermarket share on the Boeing 787?

Transport & Environment (T&E), a lobbying association acting at EU level, is recommending curbing business travel as an effective way to slash aviation’s CO2 emissions this decade.

A joint taskforce will assess challenges around green hydrogen regulations, infrastructure and global supply chains, including the production of green hydrogen and the infrastructure needed to support delivery to airports and fuel aircraft.

SAF from sunlight; Rotating detonation engine; Composite cryogenic tank; Turbine weight saving; Dutch electric flight.

Airlines, industry and energy companies in Japan have formed a voluntary organization to promote the domestic production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Production of SAF from many sources other than cooking oil is coming online.

Swiss International Airlines expects to take delivery of carbon-neutral aviation fuel produced using concentrated sunlight in 2023, under a strategic collaboration with Swiss startup Synhelion.

Honeywell UOP is working with China’s Oriental Energy to build a large sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Maoming, Guangdong province.

Helicopter operations are a small fraction of global annual aviation fuel usage, but the industry wants to join aviation’s green efforts.

Sonoma airport that serves business aviation adds solar power.

Singapore plays the long game to become sustainable fuel hub.

Enabling existing refinery infrastructure to be used for production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is an important avenue to accelerating the availability of low-carbon fuels for aviation.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson on Feb. 23 unveiled an industry-government initiative to eliminate the use of unleaded aviation fuel (avgas) by piston-engined a

Swiss International Air Lines will be the first passenger airline to install AeroSHARK surface technology on its fleet.

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An A380 will flight-test a hydrogen-burning turbine engine by the end of 2026 under a collaboration between Airbus and CFM International partners GE Aviation and Safran.