Alphabet’s Google UK joins Operation Blue Skies to cut aviation contrail warming with AI
Program funding and aims
The program is co-funded by industry partners and supported by UK Department for Transport funding via the ATI Programme.
Government grant funding is allocated to academic, non-profit and aviation partners, with the aim of building UK contrail forecasting and verification capabilities.
The project targets operationally practical contrail avoidance, positioned as a cost-effective lever to cut aviation climate impact.
Google UK backs UK contrail-reduction consortium
Alphabet’s Google UK has joined Operation Blue Skies, a UK consortium using AI to predict, avoid and track warming aviation contrails.
Google UK contributed GBP 1.4 million in-kind support on a pro-bono basis, including engineering time, AI expertise and high-performance computing.
