Current sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are limited to a maximum 50% blend with conventional jet fuels because most of them lack a key ingredient―aromatic hydrocarbons that cause seals in engines to swell and prevent fuel leaks.
Cathay Pacific is launching a corporate sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) program, allowing companies to purchase SAF for their employees’ flights and reducing Scope 3 carbon emissions from business travel or cargo transportation.
The governments of Singapore and New Zealand have signed a memorandum of arrangement (MOA) to drive the development of sustainable aviation between the two countries.
Irish LCC Ryanair has signed a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) agreement with Neste, while Etihad is embarking on a week of intensive flight tests to cut carbon emissions and contrails.
Colonial Pipeline, the largest petroleum pipeline system in the U.S., plans to allow its system to be used to transport sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Mitsubishi and Eneos, Japan’s largest oil company, will jointly study the establishment of a domestic supply chain for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), targeting deliveries beginning in 2027.
Projects to develop aviation-specific fuel cells and storage systems are included in the first call for proposals under the European Union’s new Clean Hydrogen public-private research program.
Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is too generous to airlines and free carbon allowances to the aviation industry should be curbed, Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) said in an April 6 report.
Even as biofuel suppliers and fixed-base operators (FBOs) ramp up the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), aircraft operators remain uncertain about the composition of SAF and complexity of using it to claim emissions reductions, business aviation leaders say.
Germany’s government has confirmed it is funding a project to modify a Dornier 328 regional turboprop into a flying testbed for zero-emission hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Two years into the pandemic, European airlines have acclimated to high levels of short-term uncertainty, but as CEOs gathered in Brussels at the Airlines For Europe (A4E) annual summit, it was long-term issues that dominated discussions.
A process developed by biofuel developer Enerkem to convert forest biomass into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has won a Canadian government competition to develop a fuel that can be produced domestically at costs competitive with fossil fuel.