A pioneering demonstration showcasing how hydrogen can support the decarbonisation of ground handling operations has taken place at Exeter Airport. In a first of its kind for the UK, the trial saw a TUI Boeing B737 undergo a turnaround using hydrogen-powered GSE. The project, which Exeter said...

GKN Aerospace's chief technology officer Russ Dunn has been appointed chair of the Hydrogen in Aviation Alliance (HIA). Dunn is taking over the role from easyJet CEO Johan Lundgren, who has led HIA since its creation in 2023. He now hands over the reins of the alliance to Dunn who will lead th...

Airbus has teamed up with London Gatwick, easyJet and Air Products, the world’s largest hydrogen supplier, to expand hydrogen capability and infrastructure in the UK as the manufacturer moves closer to its target of getting a hydrogen powered aircraft in the sky by 2035. Setting up the right in...

An aviation industry group is calling on the UK government to invest in hydrogen to ensure hydrogen-powered flights "become a reality". The Hydrogen in Aviation (HIA) alliance, whose members include Airbus, easyJet and Rolls-Royce, said it wants to ensure the UK is a global leader in the developm...

Airbus UpNext has launched a new demonstrator programme to explore, on the ground and in flight, a new architecture for the generation of non propulsive energy through the use of hydrogen fuel cells. On conventional airliners, the APU (Auxiliary Power Unit), a small additional engine that runs on...

Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with HyPort, a joint venture between ENGIE Solutions and the Regional Agency for Energy and Climate in Occitanie (AREC), a leader in the development of green hydrogen in France, to support the development of one of the world’s first low carbon hydrogen pro...

Rolls-Royce and easyJet today confirmed they have set a new aviation milestone with the world’s first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen. The ground test was conducted on an early concept demonstrator using green hydrogen created by wind and tidal power. It marks a major step towards pr...

Airbus has joined the world’s largest clean hydrogen infrastructure investment fund, managed by Hy24 - a joint venture between Ardian, a world-leading private investment house and FiveTHydrogen, an investment manager specialising in clean hydrogen investments. Hy24’s investment fund will prov...

Airbus and Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on the development of hydrogen infrastructure at airports worldwide. The agreement follows a cooperation agreement signed in Singapore in February and covers collab...

The aerospace industry is preparing for flying with hydrogen. In Hamburg, the world's third-largest aviation center, a new development platform is being launched to test the new technology from as early as 2022. Funded by the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Lufthansa Technik will work with the German...

Chairman of the Board of Avia Solutions Group Gediminas Ziemelis addresses the potential of hydrogen aircraft in commercial aviation: "For quite some time already, sustainability has been a top topic in amongst aviation professionals. While many companies in the aviation industry focus on opt...

Paris region, Groupe ADP, Air France-KLM and Airbus are launching a call for expressions of interest to explore the opportunities generated by hydrogen in Paris airports with the aim to decarbonize air transport activities. This worldwide call for expressions of interest complies with the French ...