The UK Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) recently commissioned Ipsos UK to carry out a survey of more than 2000 UK adults aged 16-75, asking questions relating to the impacts of decarbonizing aviation.

A majority of those surveyed considered themselves concerned about climate change, more than half fly at least once a year. It is therefore presumed that the topic is of interest to a significant proportion of the public.

Among the findings was that only a minority of respondents say they are willing (8% ‘very willing’, 30% ‘fairly willing’) to pay more in order to reduce their carbon emissions.

Much of the work to decarbonize the industry will result in increased costs, either directly or indirectly, at least in the earlier stages of adoption, so it is unlikely that increased costs for passengers can be entirely avoided, RAeS noted.

More positively, 80% of those surveyed say that they trust the aircraft manufacturing industry and regulators to ensure that new technologies and fuels are introduced safely (32% said they trust them ‘a great deal’, and 48% said they trust them ‘a fair amount’ to do this).