'Zero net emissions on the ground at Le Bourget by 2025,' announces ADP

The executive director of ADP group (Paris Airports Group) Edward Arkwright said "The objective is that in 2025 we will be able to propose at Le Bourget, zero net emissions on the ground, that is to say on the 8 percent of CO2 emissions that concern only the operations around the aircraft on the ground, so we are not talking about taxiing, we are not talking about the aircraft flying."

He said: "This 8 percent means that we are able to electrify them by modulating, obviously, the quality of the electricity production and therefore, whether it is a question of supplying the aircraft with energy, the APU (Auxiliary Power Unit), whether it is a question of refueling it with a totally electric tanker, whether it is a question of disembarking the luggage, offering a gangway for the passengers or intervening around the aircraft. All of these operations can be done in an electrified way."

President of the EBBA and head of the Dassault Falcon Service airline Bertrand d'Yvoire said: "So in concrete terms, SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels), which is the English term for CAD (sustainable aviation fuel), is a mixture of fuel from recycled used oil, waste, etc., biomass and a mixture of paraffin from petroleum. And what is available today at Le Bourget, Bordeaux-Mérignac and Clermont-Ferrand is a mixture of 30 percent SAF or CAD and 70 percent paraffin."

He added, "So Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer, the parent company of Dassault Falcon Service, is currently working on a new aircraft which will come out in three, three or four years, something like that, and which will be the Falcon 10 X and its engines, which will be Rolls-Royce engines, will be certified to run on 100 percent SAF fuel, whereas today the technical limit is more like 50 percent ."