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Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced that freight company client DSV will buy sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for all its corporate travel with the carrier in 2023. "Since Covid, we have been able to reduce our amount of business air travel, but being a global...
DHL Express recently launched GoGreen Plus a service that will enable the customers to reduce carbon emissions associated with their shipments through the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). "This is a first for global express carriers, and will initially launch...
British company ZeroAvia, which in January tested a hydrogen-powered aircraft over Gloucestershire, has announced a "long-term partnership" with Birmingham Airport. The partners hope to make hydrogen-fuelled air travel "a reality" as ZeroAvia aims by 2025 to produce...
London Luton Airport authorities said a February 14 protest by environmentalists was "not causing any disruption" at the hub's main terminal. The so-called "love in action" demonstration by Extinction Rebellion was being staged at the airport's private jet terminal,...
Christchurch Airport is all set to develop its renewable energy precinct, Kōwhai Park and has chosen Contact Energy and Lightsource bp, as its partners to deliver phase one of the park. In April 2022, Contact Energy and Lightsource bp entered an exclusive partnership...
Pratt & Whitney Canada and French aircraft maker ATR have announced they will "collaborate to achieve 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) readiness in PW127 series engines by 2025". The target date includes the PW127XT, the partner companies said, with ATR...
Brussels Airport kicked off the new year with a new resolution towards sustainable aviation by taking the delivery of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel for the first time using the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS). The CEPS will be supplying aviation fuel...
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) used Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel for the first time for several cargo flights from Amsterdam in November and December 2022 at Schiphol airport. Thrilled at the achievement, Hitoshi Watanabe, Vice President & General Manager,...
Air China recently conducted a successful commercial cargo flight using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the first time. The bio-jet fuel was produced by Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery, a subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corp. The flight took off from Hangzhou City in...
Bristol Airport said it would form a "new partnership" with jet manufacturer Airbus and carrier easyJet to see how an airport can operate as a supply base for hydrogen-based energy. The south-west England hub said Hynamics, a hydrogen-focused wing of French...
Embraer unveiled what it said were "new aircraft concepts" during a December 5 update on its contribution to "getting the aviation industry to net-zero by 2050". The 19 and 30 seater design offer, the Brazilian aerospace business said, "a technically realistic and...
Airbus's UpNext subsidiary is to launch a project with the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) to look into how superconductivity can promote "decarbonisation of future aircraft systems". The tie-up is the latest in a series of so-called "clean aviation"...