Sustainability

Three sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) registries have partnered on a pilot project to minimize the risk of double-counting.

Even if eSAF developers manage to secure long-term airline offtake agreements, they are not likely to be recognized as bankable by financiers, experts say.

Assessing efficiency at the largest Chinese, European and U.S. airlines since 2022, we see improvement across the board, but clear Chinese dominance throughout.

SAF producer LanzaJet has secured $47 million in the first close of an equity investment round targeted at raising a total of $135 million.

Finavia is expanding its net zero emissions mission beyond its properties into the supply chains that provide them with goods and services, the company says.

Air Canada has ordered eight A350-1000s, which sounds like a fool-proof plan to improve efficiency; the Carbon Analysis investigates what effect this may have.

Sustainable aviation fuel producer Neste and distributor World Fuel Services are aiming to make Neste SAF available at more than 100 airports across Europe over the next five years.

Airlines across Europe are struggling to get hold of essential paperwork that fuel suppliers must provide under ReFuelEU, despite a passed Feb. 14 deadline.

MHI has demonstrated an integrated production process for synthesizing liquid fuels that may produce SAF at a cost competitive with fossil jet fuel.

Printing drone batteries, visualizing hydrogen, hybrid cargo UAV, modeling next-gen fleets.

Heathrow Airport said it is making $109 million in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) funding available this year.

SkyNRG has closed the financing for its first SAF production facility, in the north Netherlands, which is planned to become operational in mid-2028.

“We’ve just barely got to 2% by 2026 ... [with] no prospect of getting to 6% by 2030; they’ll just move to the right," Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said in Paris.

A growing number of reports from academic and nongovernmental organizations indicates that aviation is falling short of its decarbonization targets.

Carbon Analysis considers what effect Lufthansa's forthcoming new long-haul fleet may have on the airline's current operating efficiency.

Cathay Pacific has made significant gains in its corporate sustainable aviation fuel program, which is a major factor in the carrier’s increased SAF usage.

The UK's DfT says a carbon labeling system for flights to enable consumers to make more informed choices about sustainable flying should be implemented.

This could be a reasonably good year for airlines, but much hangs in the balance.

FedEx is taking delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at five major U.S. airports.

Aviation Week flies in the EL2 demonstrator to see how it helped Electra and its customers understand the power of blown-lift ultra-STOL.

A German project has concluded that further research is needed before contrail-avoidance procedures can be used in regular airline operations.

Sustainable fuel producer Ineratec has lined up two airline offtakers for its first five years of electronic-sustainable aviation fuel production in Germany.

Even with the industry’s own assumptions for its decarbonization effort, the calculated outcome falls short of meeting climate change limitation targets.

The African Development Bank Group and Air Cote d’Ivoire have signed an LOI to explore strategic cooperation aimed at strengthening Africa’s aviation sector.

With Aviation Week’s MRO Middle East taking place in Dubai, Carbon Analysis looks at the Middle Eastern Big Three: Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways.