Sustainability and Environment
Bunce: Bizav Between 'Rock and Hard Place' on Environment in Europe
Business aviation is facing increasing environmental pressures in Europe but is prevented from taking steps such as SAF use, GAMA's Bunce warns.
Pete Bunce at State of Industry press conference 2023
GAMA chief Pete Bunce stressed the importance of book-and-claim in Europe because of the unavailability of SAF. (Photo: Kerry Lynch/AIN )

The business aviation industry is “between a rock and a hard place” in Europe because environmental pressures are increasing and yet regulatory roadblocks are preventing progress, according to General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president and CEO Pete Bunce.

“A lot of the news has not been good as far as the approach of business aviation over there [in Europe],” Bunce said during his association’s annual State of the Industry press conference on Wednesday, referring to environmental activism activities such as the recent interruption of the start of the European Business Aviation Association’s AIROPS23 Conference in Brussels. Activists blocked the entrance to the ExecuJet FBO terminal at Brussels airport and also barged into the AIROPS23 event.

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