Airlines put faith in SAF as environmental pressure mounts
Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) will play an “absolutely critical” role in reducing the air transport industry’s impact o... Continue Reading
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Analysis: Airbus’ frank and open climate crisis panel
It’s rare in aviation that the different interests in civil society and across industry — airframers, airports and airlines — have public an... Continue Reading
Airline industry ups climate ambitions as clock ticks on ICAO goal
As pressure mounts on ICAO to agree a long-term climate goal for aviation at its 41st assembly next year, the industry appears poised to inc... Continue Reading
Air traffic management: decarbonisation’s low-hanging fruit?
Of all the measures, proposals, technologies and prospective breakthroughs discussed at Airbus’ sustainability summit this month in Toulouse... Continue Reading
Airbus’ Summit on sustainability opens for complicated questions
During its two-day sustainability summit this week, Airbus created a space where players from throughout aviation — and beyond — came togeth... Continue Reading
easyJet’s latest green signal: plastic bottle polyester uniforms
When easyJet’s new cabin crew and pilot uniforms take to the skies this month, every one will represent the recycling equivalent of some for... Continue Reading
Airflow CEO Marc Ausman on the role of commercial electric flight
The electric revolution is coming… Although this is a line borrowed from the Airflow website, it’s also a fact. Airflow is working to bring ... Continue Reading
Safran, GE target open-fan RISE engine at -20% fuel burn by 2030s
PARIS: On what would have been the first day of this year’s Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Safran and GE announced a generational efficiency ... Continue Reading
Vertical’s eVTOL aircraft attracts Avolon, American, Virgin
Zero-emissions aircraft that could potentially transport customers quickly around urban city centers and to airports are having a serious mo... Continue Reading
Boltaron achieves true recycling of aerospace grade thermoplastic
As aviation begins to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, the industry is doubling down on its efforts to achieve a more environmentally sustai... Continue Reading
Closing the loop: aviation’s post-use thermoplastics footprint
What happens to your aircraft seat after its useful life is over and it’s removed from the aircraft? It’s increasingly likely to end up bein... Continue Reading
Singapore Airlines on designing modern and cross-cultural serviceware
The way airlines are serving meals in the sky has undergone a complete revolution in the time of COVID, with plastic forks and disposable pa... Continue Reading
Inside the fight to stop illegal wildlife trade post-COVID
As passengers take to the skies in greater numbers after the COVID-19 pandemic, so too could a less desirable commodity: illegal wildlife pr... Continue Reading
Recycled and bio-plastics: a solution to the PaxEx plastics footprint?
The passenger experience industry often considers plastics in aesthetic terms, from developing exciting new shapes, patterns and technologie... Continue Reading
Cut carbon or face passenger exodus, Europe’s airlines warned
Policymakers have welcomed the European aviation industry’s roadmap for reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 as an impor... Continue Reading