It is high time for ICAO to integrate climate concerns into its statutes, otherwise little progress can be expected at its next general meetings, the French air and space academy (AAE) says.
In France a wide-ranging study is underway to model how climate change is going to affect commercial air transport, from takeoff performance to airport submersion and leisure travel demand.
The technical collaboration with Deutsche Aircraft is the first to be announced to involve the use of Universal Hydrogen’s capsules in an aircraft with another company’s hydrogen propulsion system.
A Los Angeles-based commuter airline plans to purchase up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravan EX turboprops from Textron Aviation with plans to convert them into hybrid-electric aircraft for commercial air travel.
Europe's latest plans to drastically cut carbon emissions hammer home that the EU is serious about its sustainability agenda and that industries, including aviation, better get used to the idea.
The new generation of commercial aircraft will need to be largely carbon-free in the coming decades. Anuradha Deenapanray Chappard looks at how the industry’s big players are working to meet these targets.
The Canadian federal and Quebec provincial governments together will invest in projects at Bell, CAE and Pratt & Whitney Canada to develop technologies supporting the electrification and decarbonization of aviation.
The European Commission has laid out sweeping new sustainability legislation for aviation that includes tighter rules for its emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS), quotas for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and a fuel tax for intra-European flights.
Aimed at enabling single-aisle airliners to burn carbon-free hydrogen in turbine engines, GKN Aerospace is leading a two-year Swedish-funded research project.
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that the reliance on taxation as the solution for cutting aviation emissions in the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ proposal is counter-productive to the goal of sustainable aviation.
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
On July 14 the EU is set to unveil new legislation covering emissions trading, renewables targets and CO2 limits, all of which are likely to have a big impact on the aviation industry.
Qatar Airways and the International Air Transport Association announced that Qatar Airways will become the first airline in the Middle East to join the IATA Turbulence Aware platform.
Charged with enabling zero-emission transatlantic flight within a generation, the UK’s Jet Zero Council has launched a competition designed to demonstrate how airport upgrades could enable the introduction of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Recent examples show that airlines in Asia-Pacific are willing to devote resources to sustainability efforts at a time when they are also looking under every rock to cut costs.
