sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

By Graham Warwick
Boston-based Sora Fuel has raised $14.6 million to build a pilot production facility.
Emerging Technologies

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific reported a significant rise in its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) usage in 2025.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
IATA says the Middle East conflict and resulting disruption to crude and jet fuel supply could force governments to reassess energy security strategies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
The 2026 Changi Aviation Summit in Singapore brought together more than 350 industry and government leaders to discuss global air travel in a disruptive world.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Europe is likely to have met the 2025 target of 2% of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), according to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Nuclear fusion rocket power; Matrix autonomy joins the Army; ship-to-shore contested logistics; and sulfur’s role in contrails formation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Every general and business aviation, cargo and commercial flight leaving Singapore will begin paying a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has deferred implementation of its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy, originally scheduled to begin April 1, 2026.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Aether Fuels is advancing plans for a Southeast Asia facility capable of producing 100,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) annually.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The airlines say European e-SAF mandates cannot be met and warn that other environmental legislation puts the sector’s competitiveness at risk.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Seeing shortcomings in their support to the aviation sector, EU officials and members of the European Parliament are considering a more comprehensive approach.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
China Southern Airlines has participated in what is described as China’s first full-chain sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) uplift.
Emerging Technologies

By Victoria Moores
EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas has named competitiveness as the “overriding objective” of Europe’s new aviation strategy.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European airline CEOs meeting in Brussels say mandates imposing the use of synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) should be delayed.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European airlines plan to meet in Brussels to call for a delay to a European mandate for the uptake of synthetic aviation fuel, Transport & Environment said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Southern Energy Renewables has selected St. Charles, Louisiana, as the location for a planned $1.4 billion sustainable aviation fuel production facility.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Stop-fold tiltrotor becomes X-76; Sikorsky tests hybrid powertrain; light-driven SAF production; and from nuclear power to liquid fuel.
Emerging Technologies

By Aaron Karp
Airlines in Brazil are unsure of how they will comply with the government’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate that takes effect in 2027.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
LATAM Airlines Brazil’s CEO believes Brazil could become one of the world’s most competitive producers of SAF.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Syzygy Plasmonics has signed an agreement to develop commercial-scale facilities in Brazil to produce SAF using biogas created from sugar crop waste.
Emerging Technologies

By Victoria Moores
Lufthansa Group has called on the EU to widen its electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) mandate to include other transport modes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Rolls-Royce has teamed up with UK project developer Equilibrion to explore whether small modular nuclear reactors could be used to power eSAF production.
Emerging Technologies

By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) has shared key risk assessments and clauses that it includes in long-term sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) contracts.
Emerging Technologies

By Angus Batey
The story of the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) in business aviation has been circuitous.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Pilling
Kenyan startup Bleriot Group is gearing up its SAF production operation this year with a view to manufacturing SAF in commercial quantities in 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion