Govt support needed to make sustainable aviation fuel in NZ

Govt support needed to make sustainable aviation fuel in NZ
An Air NZ A320 landing at Auckland Airport. (Image: NZME)
Greg Hurrell
New Zealand needs to make its own sustainable aviation fuel, but that won’t happen without government policy support, industry insiders say.Kiri Hannifin is part of Air NZ’s senior leadership team, and her role was created in 2022. Being an airline's sustainability person in a business with inherently high emissions can't always be easy.“We make a few mistakes, and we fall over and then keep going, but you know it has to be done.”Hannifin said emissions were the airline’s most significant problem in the med...

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