Monday 4 December 2023
Airbus' carbon removal initiative gets first North American airline sign up from Air Canada
Saturday 2 December 2023
ZeroAvia Engines to Power Ecojet
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince’s newly launched airline to use hydrogen-electric propulsion technology pioneered in the Cotswolds.
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince’s newly launched airline to use hydrogen-electric propulsion technology pioneered in the Cotswolds.
This week ZeroAvia confirmed it has signed an agreement with newly launched airline Ecojet for up to 70 hydrogen-electric, zero-emission engines.

Saturday 23 September 2023
United to buy 1 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel ......

Wednesday 20 September 2023
WestJet endorses widescale Canadian production of sustainable aviation fuel
Chief Executive Officer, Alexis von Hoensbroech attends 24th World Petroleum Congress and addresses opportunity for a collective effort to achieve aviation industry's net-zero target of 2050
Chief Executive Officer, Alexis von Hoensbroech attends 24th World Petroleum Congress and addresses opportunity for a collective effort to achieve aviation industry's net-zero target of 2050
No Stone Unturned in Quest for Net Zero
Monday 18 September 2023
Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and NEOM co-lead ZeroAvia’s latest financing round
ZeroAvia has announced that Airbus, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and NEOM have co-led the company’s latest financing round.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Alaska Airlines, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Summa Equity, AP Ventures and Amazon Climate Pledge Fund have also participated in the investment.
This investment will enable ZeroAvia to accelerate progress towards certification of its first engine as well as delivering the company’s mission of a hydrogen-electric engine in every aircraft.
In conjunction with the investment, Airbus and ZeroAvia have agreed to collaborate on certification approaches for hydrogen power systems. The companies also intend to work together on a number of critical technical areas, including liquid hydrogen fuel storage, flight and ground testing of fuel cell propulsion systems, and development of hydrogen refueling infrastructure and operations.
ZeroAvia is pursuing hydrogen-electric propulsion systems as the most environmentally friendly and economically attractive solution to aviation’s growing climate change impact. The company’s hydrogen-electric engines use hydrogen in fuel cells to generate electricity, which is then used to power electric motors to turn the aircraft’s propellers, with the only byproduct during flight being water.
Wednesday 13 September 2023
Airbus partners with DG Fuels to foster sustainable aviation fuel production in the United States
This partnership will support the scaling of a promising technology to produce sustainable aviation fuels from cellulosic waste and residues.
Saturday 9 September 2023
Joby subsidiary H2FLY completes World’s first piloted flight of liquid hydrogen powered electric aircraft
H2FLY, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Joby Aviation has announced the successful completion of the world’s first piloted flight of a liquid hydrogen-powered electric aircraft.
Thursday 7 September 2023
UK hydrogen alliance established to accelerate zero carbon aviation and bring an £34bn* annual benefit to the country.
Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet and first Chair of HIA, said: “There is no doubt that the UK has the potential to become a world leader in hydrogen aviation, which could bring with it a £34bn per annum boost to the country’s economy by 2050, but in order to capture this opportunity, rapid change is needed and the time to act is now.We must work together to deliver the radical solutions required for a hard to abate industry like aviation so we can protect and maximise the benefits that it brings to the UK economy and society and that we know British consumers want to be preserved.HIA looks forward to working with the UK Government to ensure the right funding, regulatory and policy changes are implemented to accelerate the delivery of zero carbon aviation.”
Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology Officer at Rolls-Royce, said: “Collaboration is key when it comes to achieving our net zero ambitions as an industry, which is why we are proud to be part of the Hydrogen in Aviation Alliance. Our contribution to HIA is the capability and experience we have in pioneering new technologies and solutions - we have already tested a modern aero engine on green hydrogen and we strongly believe it is one of the solutions that will help decarbonise aviation in the mid to long-term.”
Sabine Klauke, Chief Technology Officer at Airbus said: “As Airbus continues to mature the aircraft technologies needed to deliver hydrogen-powered flight, a united industry voice is needed to secure a robust ecosystem of renewably-sourced hydrogen. Joining our peers from across the UK aviation landscape in a targeted approach to policy and investment action brings us closer to a decarbonised future of flying."
Olivia Breese, Senior Vice President and Head of Power-to-X for Ørsted, commented: “Ørsted is fully committed to renewable hydrogen as a key solution to defossilise hard-to-electrify sectors such as aviation. Our long experience in developing and deploying new technologies has taught us that collaboration across policy makers, developers, customers and supply chain - and considerable investment from each of them – is critical to bring down costs and drive a new sector to scale. Alliances such as the HIA are essential to bring together different actors across the value chain to support and accelerate the role hydrogen can, and must, play in the UK.”
Hydrogen is key to UK industry, jobs and net zero ambitions:

Tuesday 18 July 2023
First embodied carbon estimate tool for airport terminals developed by IATA and Atkins
Friday 14 July 2023
American Airlines releases 2022 Sustainability Report
Thursday 4 May 2023
United to triple Sustainable Aviation Fuel use in 2023.......
United Airlines is planning to use 10 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in 2023 – about three times more than 2022 and 10 times more than in 2019
United also welcomes new corporate participants to its Eco-Skies Alliance program, who will contribute to the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel
United has purchased more SAF and expects to fly more miles using SAF this year than any airline
Eco-Skies Alliance Round
Wednesday 3 May 2023
Boeing is expanding its ecoDemonstrator flight-test programme
Sustainable wall panels in the cargo hold that are made of 40% recycled carbon fiber and 60% resin made from a bio-based feedstockA fiber optic fuel quantity sensor compatible with 100% SAFAn Electronic Flight Bag application featuring Smart Airport Maps, a component of Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro, which reduces operational costs and supports safe taxi operations with the depiction of contextual airport dataFor all flight tests, the airplane will fly on the highest available blend of SAF locally

Friday 28 April 2023
Lufthansa Airbus A350 becomes climate research aircraft.....
From 2024, a Lufthansa A350 will collect climate data for the first time for the European research infrastructure IAGOS-CARIBIC
From 2024, a Lufthansa A350 will collect climate data for the first time for the European research infrastructure IAGOS-CARIBIC
Wednesday 1 February 2023
United, Tallgrass, and Green Plains Form Joint Venture to Develop New Sustainable Aviation Fuel Technology Using Ethanol

United Airlines, Tallgrass, and Green Plains Inc. have announced a new joint venture – Blue Blade Energy – to develop and then commercialize a novel Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology that uses ethanol as its feedstock. If the technology is successful, Blue Blade is expected to proceed with the construction of a pilot facility in 2024, followed by a full-scale facility that could begin commercial operations by 2028. The offtake agreement could provide for enough SAF to fly more than 50,000 flights annually between United's hub airports in Chicago and Denver.*
United, Tallgrass, and Green Plains will invest up to a combined $50 million in the joint venture – Blue Blade Energy – to develop the technologyUnited has entered into an offtake agreement with Blue Blade Energy for up to 135 million gallons of ethanol based SAF annually and up to 2.7 billion gallons in totalUnited has invested in more SAF production than any other airline
Tallgrass will manage research and development of the technology, including pilot plant development, and will manage the construction of the production facility.Green Plains will supply the low-carbon ethanol feedstock, and use its ethanol industry expertise to manage operations once the pilot facility is constructed.United Airlines will assist with SAF development, fuel certification and into-wing logistics, and has also agreed to purchase up to 2.7 billion gallons of SAF produced from the joint venture.
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Tuesday 31 January 2023
Airbus Commercial Selects Altair SimSolid in ZEROe Sustainable Aircraft Initiative
Altair SimSolid will streamline Airbus teams in their development of the world's first zero-emission commercial aircraft
Altair SimSolid will streamline Airbus teams in their development of the world's first zero-emission commercial aircraft
Friday 20 January 2023
The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi Bestows Honorary Green Industries Eco-Label Upon Etihad Airways

Thursday 19 January 2023
ZeroAvia Makes Aviation History, Flying World's Largest Aircraft Powered with a Hydrogen-Electric Engine
Wednesday 18 January 2023
H3 Dynamics and Hylium Industries join forces to progress liquid hydrogen-electric flight capabilities
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Investing in a greener future......
Investing in a greener future | Airlines. (iata.org)
