Aerospace Global News
16 May 2025
Airports worldwide are facing a multitude of challenges as they work to balance ongoing expansion with environmental mitigation; ensuring they can continue to sustainably facilitate the growing demand for air transportation. However, with alternative propulsion technologies (such as hydrogen or electric innovation) still in their relative infancy, the long lead times of associated infrastructure investment invariably create a challenging balancing act.
Consensus among the industry generally seems to accept that, in the immediate to short term at least, sustainable aviation fuels – complemented by incremental increases in aircraft efficiency – will have the largest mitigating measure on air travel’s carbon emissions. This perspective was shared by London Heathrow’s carbon strategy director Matt Gorman, who nevertheless emphasized that air travel “enables some of the most positive things we do”.
Read on: Airport sustainability – planning for the decades ahead - AGN
