AIR TRAVEL ‘Demand has outstripped capacity’
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20 40 60 80
FIGURE 52: FLIGHTS ON TIME AT MAJOR UK AIRPORTS Scheduled flights only
90%
75% 76% 76%
68% 74% 62%
77% 70%
66%
76% 69%
77% 74% 75% 68% 58%
64% 59%
61% 53%
39%
83% 81%
85% 82% 80%
in relation to aviation technology and decarbonisation. It was hailed as “a
milestone” by industry leaders, but WKDWbYLHZ ZDV FRQWHVWHG Rob Griggs, policy and public affairs
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2023 Q3
Source: CAA FIGURE 53: UK FLIGHT PUNCTUALITY & CANCELLATIONS 4 %
2 3
0 1
On time performance (< 15 mins) % flights cancelled (<24hr pre-departure)
75% 76% 72% 75%
84% 3.7%
84% 63% 1.5%
0.3% 0.6% 2016
2017 0.9% 2018 2019 63% 1.6% 1.8% 1.2% 2020 2021 2022
FIGURE 54: UK AIRLINES’ STAFF NUMBERS Sales/ticketing
Cabin crew
5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000
0 34,740 32,340 Pilots 2023 100
20 40 60 80
0 Source: CAA
director at Airlines UK, insisted: “It showed a glimpse of the future. It demonstrated this technology works.” He told a Travel Weekly Sustainability Summit: “SAF is going to have to do the heavy lifting in reducing aviation emissions for the next couple of decades. But to make that happen we need volumes of SAF at a cost airlines can afford.” However, Cait Hewitt, policy director at the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF), insisted: “We’re decades away from a genuine zero-emissions flight that could cross the Atlantic.” She argued: “Even 100% SAF will reduce emissions by zero per cent.” The fuel Virgin Atlantic used was
%
mostly produced from cooking oil and Hewitt noted: “By definition, a waste- based fuel can’t be scaled up sustainably.” Griggs conceded the fuel “is the least scalable SAF and probably has less lifecycle benefits [than alternatives].” But he argued: “The SAFs we want to make in the UK are second-generation fuels from waste carbons and organic waste that are harder to process but more scalable.” The government’s Jet Zero Strategy
Maintenance Other
commits to having five SAF plants under construction in the UK by 2025. Just one SAF plant, on the Humber, has begun operating to date. At the time of writing, the government was still analysing the feedback from a second consultation on its ‘SAF mandate’ issued in April. It proposes to require SAF comprise 10% of jet fuel by 2030. Airline chiefs criticised both UK
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13,320 8,300
5,117 2019 2020 2021 12,930
6,823 6,570
2022 Figures rounded Source: CAA
and EU leaders for failing to provide financial incentives for SAF production. Lufthansa group chief executive Carston Spohr pointed out in March: “If all the SAF produced in the world went to us now, it would last five days. If the European aviation industry had it, it would be gone in one day. “We buy all the SAF we can, but
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