Denmark aims to reduce total emissions by 70 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. “Travel is life and that’s why we fly,” Frederiksen said when announcing her plan. “If other countries in the world are too slow. Then Denmark should lead the way and raise the bar even higher,” she said.
Airbus
Aircraft maker Airbus recently announced plans to develop hydrogen-powered aircraft that could be operational by 2035. “We want to be the frontrunner in the most important transition in aviation ever,” said CEO Guillaume Faury about the ambitious project. The European aircraft manufacturer has presented three different types as part of the ZEROe concept.
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If the hydrogen used as fuel is generated with renewable energy, this could be a way for Denmark to meet its targets. However, the question is whether the technology will be ready by then, and the costs sufficiently low, to meet the 2030 target.
Neighboring Sweden has also announced plans to make its domestic flights free from fossil fuels by 2030. It also hopes to green up international flights by 2045.
France wants to ban domestic flights if the same train journey can be completed in less than two and a half hours.
There are also ambitious plans in New Zealand. Air New Zealand and Airbus want to jointly investigate whether it will eventually be possible to fly on hydrogen within New Zealand. The airline does not want to produce any more emissions by 2050, and must therefore look for innovative solutions.
KLM
KLM CEO Pieter Elbers also envisions electric flying, he reports in the December edition of Aviation News Magazine. According to him, the purchase of electric training aircraft by the KLM Flight Academy is a first step. However, according to Elbers, the deployment of relatively small and slow electric aircraft at airports such as Schiphol is complicated when looking at runway use and air traffic control. “With the tangential runway system, the system at Schiphol is one of the most complex in the world,” he says in the interview.
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