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Air France Reports Results from Large-Scale Contrail Avoidance Trial (opens the original)
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Air France has released the results of a large-scale contrail avoidance trial involving nearly 4,300 commercial flights across the North Atlantic, providing another operational test of how targeted flight adjustments could reduce aviation’s non-CO2 climate impact.Conducted between February and April 2026 in collaboration with French startups Estuaire and Klima, the trial so
Spotlight on E-CONTRAIL 2 (opens the original)
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For the latest installment of our ‘Profiles’ series, we’re taking a closer look at the science behind detecting contrails and quantifying their climate impact. This time around, we spotlight E-CONTRAIL 2, a European research project working to reduce some of the persistent uncertainties surrounding how contrails and aviation-induced cloudiness (AIC) form, evolve, and affect the climate.Running from June 2026 through November 2028, the project builds directly on the work of its predecessor, <a hr
Google and Cathay Pacific Take Contrail Avoidance Trials to Asia-Pacific (opens the original)
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Google and Cathay Pacific have announced that they are expanding an operational contrail avoidance trial across Asia-Pacific, bringing AI-based forecasting into another major aviation market and extending testing to ultra-long-haul operations.Cathay is Google’s first commercial airline partner in Asia-Pacific to trial the technology and, ac
Operation Blue Skies Takes Contrail Avoidance to Scale (opens the original)
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Operation Blue Skies may be the most widely covered contrail announcement since Plane Sight News began following the field. The launch has already made its way through project partners, research organizations, aviation publications, mainstream news outlets, and the LinkedIn feed, providing p
The SAF Production Pipeline (opens the original)
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Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is widely considered to be the most significant lever for achieving the aviation industry’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. However, a major disconnect is emerging between the volume of projects being announced and the amount of fuel actually expected to reach aircraft wings. While announced projects often point to significant potential capacity, the operational reality of building a global supply chain is proving to be considerably more complicated.According
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