Sustainability

Jim Harris
Country-specific policies around climate goals could complicate financial decisions by airlines and OEMs.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

By Graham Warwick
A sustainable aviation fuel that could be used as a 100% drop-in replacement for fossil jet fuel has passed a ballot within ASTM International.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

By Graham Warwick
American Airlines has cooperated with Google Research and Breakthrough Energy to test whether atmospheric zones likely to create contrails can be avoided.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
The report was jointly produced by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Boeing amid a growing acceleration of SAF in Australia.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

John Maggiore
How lessons from the growth of Washington state’s apple industry may apply to managing aviation sustainability efforts.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Boeing’s legacy 727 has found an unlikely role as a first responder to global oil spills.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Comac/CATL electric aircraft venture; high-power silicon battery; JetBlue and carbon capture; and fly/drive evTOL hovers.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore's Air Transport Industry Transformation Map 2025 lays out four strategies based around sustainability, safety, technology and workforce development.
Airports & Networks

By Tom Pleasant
An arcane accounting argument between federal departments, SAF producers and environmental groups is set to hobble SAF production in the US for years to come.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

By David Casey
A permanent hydrogen refuelling station will be established at Teesside International Airport.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Both Universal Hydrogen and ZeroAvia are developing hydrogen-electric retrofits for the ATR 72.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
However, the use of palm oil as a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) feedstock remains controversial.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
The X-66A differs from all previous X-planes by deliberately creating a production-scale platform for a next-generation commercial airliner family.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The airline's investment arm is working to bring the industry together to increase the supply of sustainable aviation fuel.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel

By Tom Pleasant
IAG Cargo and logistics company Kuehne+Nagel have renewed their agreement where K+N will partially fund the acquisition of 1.6 million gallons of SAF this year.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Diamond Aircraft completed the first flight of its eDA40 electric training aircraft from Weiner Neustadt, Austria, on July 20.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The group includes Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The new "green" air traffic management scheme between Japan and Singapore, which was tested last month, will facilitate continuous climb and descent operations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus is gathering clearer ideas on airport needs, but funding has yet to grow.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Nova Pangea plans to build a plant in the UK to convert agricultural waste and wood residues into bioethanol for processing into sustainable aviation fuel.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
Leaders of the Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions (EAGLE) initiative discussed avgas July 24 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Comac Times (Shanghai) Aviation has been set up to supply aerospace components and batteries as China looks to develop electrically powered aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
NASA has signed a new cooperative agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to extend work on a zero-emission aircraft propulsion concept.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Commercial aircraft engine lessor Willis Lease Finance Corp. plans to develop a power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in northeast England.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Already chasing a step-change in fuel-burn reduction of between 20-25%, engine-makers face the additional challenge of developing adaptable propulsion systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion