Technology is by far the most important overall factor for cutting carbon emissions, embracing both aircraft and engine technology and sustainable aviation fuels.
Aircraft/engine technology: upcoming aircraft and future aircraft
Aircraft/engine technology improvements includes both evolutionary change to upcoming aircraft (i.e. aircraft models already available or in the pipeline that are more efficient than most of the installed fleet) and next generation future aircraft types.
The modelling envisages that upcoming aircraft reduce emissions by between 15% and 25% over previous generation aircraft, and that future aircraft reduce emissions by between 30% and 50% compared to upcoming aircraft.
A hydrogen-powered single aisle aircraft, modelled to be introduced in 2035, would have zero carbon emissions.
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EU aviation and tourism urge coordinated COVID-19 measures to save jobs
February 24, 2021
The current patchwork of restrictions across Europe is causing confusion for Europe’s travel and tourism industries, and amongst its workers
The group asserts that coordination is required on travel restrictions, vaccination certificates, and testing requirements
A clear and concise set of coordinated measures across Europe will help restore public confidence and is the only chance to save the upcoming summer season
Ahead of the 1 March Extraordinary meeting of Ministers of Tourism, 14 European stakeholders in aviation and tourism have urged the Portuguese presidency of the EU to put their efforts into the coordination of all restrictive measures related to COVID-19.
By Lewis Harper2021-02-17T13:23:00+00:00
The airline industry could have been forgiven for concentrating on immediate challenges around its very survival during the Covid-19 crisis.
But it is a mark of how sustainability has become central to what the European Commission and others have referred to as the sector’s “licence to grow” that already this year, several airlines and industry groups have moved to the front foot on the issue.
And it is increasingly evident that while the Covid-19 crisis has often brought airline operations to a virtual standstill, the pre-coronavirus momentum around addressing the industry’s environmental footprint has, if anything, intensified.
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