Sustainability insights from Farnborough

Issue #23 of Sustainability in the Air Newsletter

At Farnborough, we asked top aviation executives about the most significant hurdles the industry faces in building a sustainable future.

Some of the answers were very candid and surprising. In the airshow-special episode of the Sustainability In The Air podcast, Shashank Nigam interviews industry stalwarts.

Here's whom he spoke with in this episode:

• Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways

• Arturo Barreira, Airbus Latin America

• Jane Ashton, easyJet

• Jonathan Wood, Neste

• Laia Barbarà, WEF

• Lauren Riley, United

• Nicolas Chretien, Airbus

• Patrick Baudis, MHI RJ

• Sheila Remes, Boeing

Have a listen! The second episode from the airshow comes out next week - do subscribe so you don't miss out!

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The image above comes from the ZeroAvia website.

It was also shown in a presentation given by CEO and Founder Val Miftakhov, who at Farnborough talked about the need to reach so-called ‘True Zero’, where air travel has next to no environmental impact at all.

ZeroAvia went for an H2 Electric solution as Miftakhov says that this will remove 95% of climate-based effects from aviation.

By contrast, he believes that any combustion-based solution, including hydrogen combustion engines, will only achieve 50% mitigation.

In fact, in a separate announcement, Airbus said that it would be testing hydrogen engines on a glider in North Dakota this Winter to measure contrails and NOx emissions.

Read more on the post on the SimpliFlying website.

Collaboration news

EasyJet agrees deals to pioneer ‘green’ aviation technology (BTN)

Sustainability news

• Digital Sustainability: 3 Airlines Join Forces With Boeing To Catalyze Increased Operational Efficiency (Simple Flying)

• ‘They need to get real’: Airlines slammed for betting on alternative fuels to reduce emissions (CNBC)

• Aer Lingus signs deal for sustainable aviation fuel supply (Dublin Gazette)

• Why Air NZ's sleep pods are hot in a bad way (Stuff)

• Is your airline or hotel greenwashing? Here’s how to tell | Travel Troubleshooter (Seattle Times)

• ZeroAvia attracts $30mn in new funding (Energy)