Sustainability

This article originally appeared in our Sustainability in the Air Newsletter. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly is currently taking place in Montreal, with a key focus [...]

European LCC easyJet has been an early mover in the airline sustainability space. It was one the more proactive airlines when climate change concerns started appearing on airline radars pre [...]

Yesterday there were two announcements in the next generation aircraft space, one from Heart Aerospace and another from Eviation. Together they tell us a lot about where the sector is heading. [...]

When it comes to sustainability, one of the biggest problems any fossil fuel burning industry or company faces is that of credibility. For example, in the infamous John Oliver show where he took [...]

Here’s another watch-out for airlines when running campaigns that talk about them being ‘green’ or ‘carbon neutral’. Austrian Airlines was on the receiving end of a [...]

On August 14th, a piece in The Hindu (newspaper) in India led with the following headline:: How do we make every Indian fly by our 100th independence day?  With India having just celebrated 75 [...]

The excellent MIT Technology Review has a piece casting doubt on the ability of battery-electric aircraft, such as the ES-19 developed by Heart Aerospace, to fly for any significant amount of [...]

The video below comes from Supernal, Hyundai’s urban air mobility company.  It’s well produced, professional, funny – and easy to understand. The message is that eVTOLs or ‘air taxis’ will [...]

Many airlines now have voluntary carbon offsetting schemes, where passengers are encouraged to pay X amount (depending on class travelled and distance) to offset the emissions from their flights. [...]

While the airline industry is aiming for Net Zero by 2050, ZeroAvia CEO and Founder Val Miftakhov says the goal should be so-called ‘True Zero’, where air travel has next to no environmental [...]