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🚀 New Report Alert – "Contrails - A Solvable Problem?" 🌍✈️

  • Writer: R&D Publishing
    R&D Publishing
  • Jul 1
  • 1 min read

Updated: Sep 12

We’re proud to share that our R&D team (Raimund Zopp and Alejandra Martín Frías) contributed to a newly released report by Roland Berger focused on contrail mitigation and its critical role in sustainable aviation strategies.



✍️ Authored by Nikhil Sachdeva, Robert Thomson, Miguel López San Gregorio, Christopher Stern, and Yimian Tang, the paper provides a clear look into evolving contrail avoidance strategies and case studies, touching on:

  • Contrail management: Assessing the challenges and opportunities

  • Contrail management solutions

  • Provider case studies: Flightkeys GmbH and SATAVIA: Optimizing environmental impact and cost-effectiveness

  • The potential cost of navigational avoidance

  • Realizing the potential of contrail avoidance


📌 Short Summary:

The report explores emerging strategies to reduce contrails’ climate impact without drastically altering flight operations. Three promising approaches include:

1️⃣ Improving engine efficiency to reduce soot emissions

2️⃣ Switching to sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) with lower aromatic content

3️⃣ Adjusting flight paths to avoid ice-supersaturated regions where contrails form


FLIGHTKEYS supporting these efforts by providing real-time contrail mitigation through advanced modeling and flight planning tools. Early trials show significant reduction in contrail formation with minimal fuel penalties. Adoption will depend on economic incentives and supportive regulation. As collaborative efforts grow across airlines, regulators, and tech providers, contrail management is poised to become a standard component of sustainable aviation.


We’re excited to continue driving innovation in sustainable aviation through collaborative research and actionable insights. 💡🌤️


 
 
 

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