In the UK, Skift reported that Rolls-Royce believes that sustainable aviation fuel is the only viable path to cutting emissions for long-haul air travel in the next 20 years. Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç dismissed the idea that other technologies will meaningfully cut emissions for larger aircraft anytime soon: “In the next 20 years, [sustainable aviation fuel] is the only technology that’s going to decarbonize commercial aviation,” he said last week at a Wall Street Journal event in London. “We are the only company who can actually say that all of our aerospace engines are 100% SAF compatible”, Erginbilgiç said. “That’s important because you can make small planes hydrogen or electric, but when we’re talking about narrowbody, widebody, overseas commercial airlines, SAF is the only solution.”
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