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London Heathrow’s new CEO Thomas Woldbye has called for “collaboration” between the aviation industry and the UK government to scale up the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Woldbye, who took over as the boss of the UK’s hub airport in October, made his plea following Virgin Atlantic’s successful first transatlantic flight using 100 per cent SAF in late November.
Following this historic long-haul flight, Woldbye said the benefits of aviation needed to be protected in a “world without carbon”.
“Now we need collaboration between industry and government who both have critical deliveries to scale up SAF production to make 100 per cent SAF flights an everyday reality,” he added.
Woldbye made his comments on SAF as Heathrow revealed that it catered for 6.1 million passengers in November, which was an increase of 10.2 per cent on the same month last year. For the first 11 months of 2023, the airport’s traffic rose by 30 per cent to 72.5 million passengers.
November’s figures were boosted by travellers heading to the US for Thanksgiving celebrations, as well as passengers flying to India for Diwali. Asia Pacific was the region to see the largest year-on-year increase in traffic from Heathrow with a 28 per cent rise.
Heathrow added that it was now “making final preparations” for the Christmas getaway with departures set to peak next week in the run-up to 25 December.
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