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AUSTRALIA'S love affair with flying is expected to grow at unprecedented levels over the next two decades with aviation giant Airbus forecasting demand for at least 500 new aircraft - more than double the size of existing fleets.
Airbus president and chief executive Tom Enders predicts the sales of new passenger jets will grow by more than 5 per cent a year in a bid to meet passenger demand.
The greater focus by the corporate world on green issues means that up to 85 per cent of these new planes will be more environmentally friendly, burning less fuel, generating fewer emissions and making less noise.
Despite huge financial problems and a two-year delay in delivering the first of its new generation A380-superjumbos this year Airbus is leading the new plane sales race against its US rival Boeing.
The European airline manufacturer expects to chalk up 1300 new plane sales this year with Boeing so far achieving 1154 orders.
Qantas has ordered more than 300 new planes.
Mr Enders told the audience at the hand-over of the latest new Qantas plane that by 2025 Australian airlines will need 500 additional aircraft to meet booming demand from increased passenger numbers.
Mr Enders said Qantas was also fulfilling its responsibilities in seeking to protect the ecosystem. The airline has joined a fly carbon neutral program and set a four year deadline to cut fuel use by 7.5 per cent.
The new A330 jet, which flew into Melbourne yesterday will generate 10 per cent less emissions and use 17 per cent less fuel than the 1960s era aircraft it replaces.
At a time when the aviation industry is under immense pressure from the European regulator to observe new and much stricter environmental safeguards, Mr Enders argued that instead of stamping out aviation, new efforts should be made to minimise the environmental impact.
By doing that industry would be able to maximise the contribution aviation makes to our quality of life, he said.
Advances in aviation technology over the past 20 years have reduced jet fuel burn by passenger aircraft from eight litres per 100 passengers to less than 3 litres per 100, said Mr Enders, admitting, however, that aviation contributed 2 per cent of man made carbon dioxides into the atmosphere.
But he said no reasonable alternative existed at present, because 8 per cent of global GDP was generated by aviation.
So even if you halve air transport, you reduce GDP by 4 per cent and people in developing nations, who contribute the least to climate change but benefit the most from aviation, are worst hit, he added.
Air travel to hit new heights | Herald Sun
Airbus president and chief executive Tom Enders predicts the sales of new passenger jets will grow by more than 5 per cent a year in a bid to meet passenger demand.
The greater focus by the corporate world on green issues means that up to 85 per cent of these new planes will be more environmentally friendly, burning less fuel, generating fewer emissions and making less noise.
Despite huge financial problems and a two-year delay in delivering the first of its new generation A380-superjumbos this year Airbus is leading the new plane sales race against its US rival Boeing.
The European airline manufacturer expects to chalk up 1300 new plane sales this year with Boeing so far achieving 1154 orders.
Qantas has ordered more than 300 new planes.
Mr Enders told the audience at the hand-over of the latest new Qantas plane that by 2025 Australian airlines will need 500 additional aircraft to meet booming demand from increased passenger numbers.
Mr Enders said Qantas was also fulfilling its responsibilities in seeking to protect the ecosystem. The airline has joined a fly carbon neutral program and set a four year deadline to cut fuel use by 7.5 per cent.
The new A330 jet, which flew into Melbourne yesterday will generate 10 per cent less emissions and use 17 per cent less fuel than the 1960s era aircraft it replaces.
At a time when the aviation industry is under immense pressure from the European regulator to observe new and much stricter environmental safeguards, Mr Enders argued that instead of stamping out aviation, new efforts should be made to minimise the environmental impact.
By doing that industry would be able to maximise the contribution aviation makes to our quality of life, he said.
Advances in aviation technology over the past 20 years have reduced jet fuel burn by passenger aircraft from eight litres per 100 passengers to less than 3 litres per 100, said Mr Enders, admitting, however, that aviation contributed 2 per cent of man made carbon dioxides into the atmosphere.
But he said no reasonable alternative existed at present, because 8 per cent of global GDP was generated by aviation.
So even if you halve air transport, you reduce GDP by 4 per cent and people in developing nations, who contribute the least to climate change but benefit the most from aviation, are worst hit, he added.
Air travel to hit new heights | Herald Sun
