It marks the Fort Worth-based airline’s second investment in hydrogen technology.
, based in Los Angeles, says it will build a distribution network to deliver hydrogen capsules in way that avoids the need to build new refueling infrastructure at airports.
The companies said Universal Hydrogen expects to deliver hydrogen for regional aircraft in 2025 and later to larger, single-aisle aircraft as an auxiliary power source in the late 2020s and a primary fuel by the mid-2030s — an extremely ambitious schedule. American cast its undisclosed investment as a vote of confidence in hydrogen becoming a key element of a sustainable aviation industry. In August, the company invested in
, a hydrogen-electric engine developer. It also signed a memorandum of understanding that lets the airline order up to 100 engines from ZeroAvia.
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