The new aviation routes are being traced in Paris

Maxi-orders, technological evolution and experimentation. L’2023 edition of the Paris Air Show showcased the main innovations in the aviation sector. Among the main protagonists, the emerging countries, starting with the order to Airbus for 500 A320s by IndiGo, which arrived in the early hours of the event. A signal, according to analysts, of the need for fleet replacement, destined to strengthen in the coming months. A study presented during the event estimates that over the next twenty years the market will need more than 42 thousand new aircraft to meet the growing demand. With manufacturers called to keep up.

The Italian presence is large

2,500 exhibitors from 47 countries took part in the Paris event, with a strong Italian representation. Among others, the Piedmont aerospace district with 17 small and medium-sized enterprises covering the entire aeronautics, defense and space supply chain. An exhibition was set up inside the exhibition space in which the companies proposed latest generation products and technologies to international clients, from mechanical components to solutions for the transport of fluids, from solutions for optimizing the supply chain to assembly of integrated structures, up to systems for the assembly and maintenance of aircraft.

Also present Ivan Bassatopresident of UrbanV, Italian company that designs and builds vertiports, working to launch the first commercial service in 2024 air taxi on the Rome-Fiumicino routein order to be ready for thebeginning of the Jubilee of 2025. Together with Paris, Rome will be one of the first cities in the world to have commercial eVtol operations as early as next year, also aiming to develop a network of vertiports for the benefit of several Italian and European cities, from Rome to Venice, up to Nice. Also worth noting stand of the Lazio Region and Lazio Innovawith representatives of 21 regional companies active in the sector.

Boeing for sustainable fuels

At the Paris event boeing he threw Saf Dashboard, a new system that tracks the potential availability of sustainable fuel. Based on data collected by Bloomberg Nef, The dashboard aggregates Saf capacity announcements from suppliers on a global scale and can filter the expected supply based on production route, location and other parameters. Even if they have struggled to take off so far, the SAFs constitute the obligatory future for a sector called to radically reform itself in order to be able to contribute significantly to the decarbonization process.

According to projections, these fuels will make it possible to halve the polluting emissions produced by aircraft by 2050. This is bio-fuels that can be blended safely with kerosene and that, over their lifetime, emit up to 80% less carbon than traditional kerosene. A study of Bain & Company however, it also highlights the costs of this solution, which will necessarily have to be accompanied by the renewal of the fleets, considering that the older models are significantly more polluting than the more recent ones.