Sustainability

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Demand for sustainable aviation fuel is growing within the business aviation sphere, with securing supply still the real challenge.
EBACE

By David Casey
Airport caps and route cuts are becoming European governments’ go-to environmental tools, even if they don’t work.
Airports & Networks

By Jeremy Kariuki
Sustainability, the future of flight and the latest in innovation and products will be the key focus of EBACE 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

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

By Alan Dron
The European airframer has reached an agreement with Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing is asking suppliers for help defining a SAF type fluid for testing a wide range of components from simple seals to entire engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Ultimately, Bombardier plans to complete EPDs on all its jets by 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
AI in aviation; flying hydrogen lab; Seoul’s UAM routes; and Alder’s fuel progresses.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
First flight tests are planned as early as 2024.
Emerging Technologies

By Alan Dron
The group includes several airports, smaller airfields, regional economic partners and other organizations around the Baltic Sea region.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Passengers say they care about the environmental effects of flying, but don’t seem willing to change their behavior.
Airlines & Lessors

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

By Alan Dron
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.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Graham Warwick
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.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Newly crowned British monarch King Charles III broke ground on May 9 on the new UK research facility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
eVTOL noise rules; Adaptive drone wings; Assuring autonomy; and A220 on 100% SAF.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Daher is pushing for the adoption of thermoplastics in larger parts, citing multiple research and technology programs.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European airlines fear that the cost of compliance will put them at a disadvantage.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jeremy Kariuki
Four industry leaders held a panel at the 2023 NBAA Maintenance Conference to discuss the future of sustainability for maintenance personnel.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
The parent company of UK leisure carrier Jet2.com has invested in a new SAF production plant in Northwest England.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
The technology of thermoplastic composites is coming closer to enabling higher production rates, as well as improved aircraft and engine designs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Batteries offer the lowest overall energy requirement, but alone cannot power most aircraft classes out to 2070, Atkins says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Prachi Patel
German companies Lufthansa Technik and BASF say the surface technology will achieve more efficiency gains and a CO2 emission reduction of up to 3%.
Emerging Technologies