Rutherford: Boeing passes the buck on aircraft decarbonization compared to Airbus
Dan Rutherford · A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation · Dec 2, 2021 · at 25:28
Dan Rutherford compares Boeing's commitment to drop-in SAFs against Airbus's clean-sheet hydrogen aircraft initiatives.
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“There are real merits to those fuels, but if you're a manufacturer to say, you know, we're going to build, we're going to continue to build our planes as they are today, and someone else is going to produce the fuel to make them zero carbon, it's a little bit of passing the buck. Whereas I think Airbus, if they can crack the hydrogen code, they're kind of taking the bull a bit more by its horns.”
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