In the UK, The Guardian reported that low-cost airline EasyJet has joined aircraft manufacturers in urging the UK government to help fund hydrogen-powered flight, as the carrier launched an operation out of Birmingham airport. The airline, along with companies including Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GKN, said hydrogen planes could be a reality by the end of the next decade, according to the report. Its chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said there had been “astonishing” progress and that the UK could be a leader in pioneering the technology, but said: “What needs to happen is not to just fly an aircraft, but how you industrialize it.”
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