Sustainability

Cathay Pacific has made significant gains in its corporate sustainable aviation fuel program, which is a major factor in the carrier’s increased SAF usage.

The UK's DfT says a carbon labeling system for flights to enable consumers to make more informed choices about sustainable flying should be implemented.

This could be a reasonably good year for airlines, but much hangs in the balance.

FedEx is taking delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at five major U.S. airports.

Aviation Week flies in the EL2 demonstrator to see how it helped Electra and its customers understand the power of blown-lift ultra-STOL.

A German project has concluded that further research is needed before contrail-avoidance procedures can be used in regular airline operations.

Sustainable fuel producer Ineratec has lined up two airline offtakers for its first five years of electronic-sustainable aviation fuel production in Germany.

Even with the industry’s own assumptions for its decarbonization effort, the calculated outcome falls short of meeting climate change limitation targets.

The African Development Bank Group and Air Cote d’Ivoire have signed an LOI to explore strategic cooperation aimed at strengthening Africa’s aviation sector.

With Aviation Week’s MRO Middle East taking place in Dubai, Carbon Analysis looks at the Middle Eastern Big Three: Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways.

Singapore's FlyORO says practical deployment of its modular SAF blending unit is helping regulators, operators and airports better understand the concept of “last-mile blending.”

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.