More planes, less air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions

This is Boeing's goal, according to Drew McGill, director of commercial aircraft marketing at Boeing, at a press conference held this week in Israel * Boeing invests 75% of its R&D budget in improving environmental performance

Boeing invests 75% of its R&D budget in improving the environmental performance of the planes and saving fuel. This is what the director of commercial aircraft marketing at Boeing said this week at a press conference held in Tel Aviv. According to him, the civil aviation market will double in the next twenty years. By 2026, airlines around the world will purchase 28,600 aircraft, only about ten thousand of which will replace existing aircraft. Thus 80% of the aircraft fleet in the twenties will consist of aircraft manufactured from that year onwards.

According to McGill, each new generation of aircraft will allow reducing carbon dioxide emissions by at least 15%. In addition, Boeing plans the production so that the amount of waste generated during it will be minimal - for example, in the 787, the company's newest plane, much less waste is produced than in the previous planes, as well as an improvement in fuel consumption by 25% compared to the 737 planes that they are replacing and which the generation Their last one was released in 1997. Today, 51 airlines have already ordered 766 planes, even before the plane's first flight. The orders come from both regular airlines and LOW COST companies.

According to McGill, Boeing currently offers small planes, but with a longer range, which will eliminate the need for the "fathers" - those centers where passengers arrive from long flights and from which they depart in small planes to nearby destinations. "Each flight through the parent causes more carbon dioxide emissions, compared to a direct flight on the same line." said. He added that since the Israeli companies, for security reasons and due to international agreements, cannot use the planes and are forced to provide mainly direct flights, the 787 (200-300 passengers) or 777 (300-400 passengers) models are suitable.

In response to the question of the science website regarding the response to the comments of his colleague at Virgin Galactic who was in Israel a week before him, and who spoke, among other things, about the development of passenger planes that would fly at high altitudes and allow for two-hour flights from London to Sydney, why this development is not in the presentation that talks about the next 20 years. If there is a technology that we can do this efficiently from an economic and environmental point of view, we will be happy to use it. We currently do not see this technology advancing in the next 20 years."