Sustainable Aviation

Sustainable aviation news and features

Queenstown opts for sustainability-linked loans

Queenstown Airport (ZQN) in Otago, New Zealand, has converted its A$100m bank lending facilities to sustainability-linked loans

Sustainable vertiports: fact or fiction?

Will vertiports simply replicate the environmental errors made by airports, or will stakeholders capitalise on the chances presented by this fledgling sector? Tara Craig reports

Heathrow trials lower-carbon concrete

Heathrow has begun exploring the viability of lower carbon concrete, which cuts emissions by 50% compared to a conventional concrete

Bristol funds local projects

The first half of 2023 has seen Bristol Airport’s Local Community Fund support local community projects to the tune of £170,000

SITA and Envision Digital join forces

The two firms will collaborate on solutions designed to help airports cut fuel and power costs while advancing their net-zero ambitions

Origami tech to feature in vertiport construction

Swedish design and technology company Stilfold has forged a new partnership with air mobility company Kookiejar, also based in Sweden

New Rajkot airport inaugurated

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has inaugurated a new international airport in Rajkot, in the western Indian state of Gujarat

Hudson and The House of R&C team up

Dufry firm Hudson and The House of LR&C have opened a store at DEN offering Russell Wilson’s Good Man Brand fashion line

Tallinn Airport to be carbon neutral by 2025   

Estonia’s Tallinn Airport is on course to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 – five years earlier than originally planned

Honeywell upgrades APU offering

Honeywell has unveiled a new high-efficiency mode (HEM) upgrade for its 131-9B auxiliary power unit (APU) for Boeing 737 aircraft