Seathe management company of Milan airportscontinues in decarbonization strategy of the aviation sector and has confirmed also for 2024 the economic support program for airline companies that operate on the airports of Malpensa and Milan that they will use sustainable fuels (Saf) during the year. I Saf, they reduce CO2 emissions by over 70%. resulting from the use of fossil fuels and are currently the most immediate and concrete response to eliminating them while waiting for fuel-powered aircraft to be operational hydrogenanother sector in which Sea is working together with the European aeronautical industry.
Sea, which in 2021 signed a agreement with Eni for the supply of biofuels for aviation, in 2023 it recognized a contribution equal to 500 euros per ton of “pure Saf” purchased by the companies and actually distributed in the two airports for cover part of the extra cost which still characterizes SAFs compared to traditional fuel. Thus, in view of the entry into force of Regulation 2023-2405 “ReFuelEu”, for 2024, has increased be the unit contribution equal to 800 euros per ton, both the total fund available equal to 500,000 euros. The program allows two access windows (April and July) to encourage the participation of a greater number of companies, also involving those that do not yet use the Saf.
“The recent Ena's recognitionc, which selected Sea's proposal together with that of Aeroporti di Roma, for develop a national project on the new ones sustainable energy carriers for commercial aviationconfirms that the decarbonisation of the aviation sector is a team play in which airports like ours, which are already working on reducing the carbon footprint of its infrastructuremust take a step further, stimulating and facilitating other operators in the sector, such as airlines, to accelerate on the decarbonisation path – underlines Armando Brunini, CEO of SEA and president of Aci Europe -. The positive response garnered from our 2023 initiative encourages us to replicate it in 2024.”
“Saf incentive initiativeslike the one started by Sea, also thanks to the international role played by Armando Brunini as president of Aci Europe – he explains Pierluigi Di Palm treepresident of Enac – I am one strategic toolor to consolidate that process of decarbonisation and reconciliation of air transport with the environment that ENAC has been promoting for some time and which it has brought to the attention of all national and international tables, both within ECAC and on the occasion of the recent CaaF3 in Dubai. Enac's cooperation with the industrial and academic sectors is crucial to raise awareness of the multiple potentials of sustainable alternative fuels in the aeronautical sector and contribute to the development of specific regulation. In this sense, SEA's initiative marks a trajectory to outline the aviation of the future together.”
Sea's initiative is in fact an operation consistent with the most advanced ones policy of the aeronautical sector, as was confirmed by a specific sector study commissioned at the end of the 2023 programme, which shows that only four other European airport managers have launched similar programmes.