by finlayasher | Nov 1, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
ICAO: States adopt net-zero 2050 global aspirational goal for international aviation In October 2022, delegates from 184 States met for intensive diplomacy at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) General Assembly in Montréal, Canada. The result was for...
by finlayasher | Aug 19, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
The Safe Landing position on electric Vertical Take-Off & Landing (eVTOL) aircraft: There’s a lot of hype around eVTOL, a class of electrically-powered aircraft which can take-off and land vertically. This enables their use on short runways or helicopter-style...
by admin | Apr 25, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
Safe Landing have responded to the UK Government Department for Transport “Jet Zero” Consultation: “updated evidence and analysis to inform our strategy for net zero aviation” which closed this week. We believe a variety of scenarios are...
by admin | Apr 10, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
Luton is one of many UK airports with plans to expand and significantly increase their maximum passenger capacity. Named ‘Luton Rising’, it plans to increase capacity from 18 to 32 million passengers per year (a 78% increase). Like Bristol and Gatwick in 2021, we...
by admin | Feb 19, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
Heathrow announced their commitments in their latest Net Zero plan, stating that: “Aviation is a force for good in the world, but those benefits cannot come at any cost. Climate is an existential threat to aviation as well as to us all personally and must be...
by admin | Feb 19, 2022 | Responses, Safe Landing position
We’re concerned by the expansion plans of many airports around the UK. These assume business-as-usual air traffic growth across the 2020s & 2030s, in a similar fashion to the growth that occurred across the 2010s. However, we’re in a position where the...
