sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

China’s Shaphargroup has selected Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining process technology for a planned facility to produce sustainable aviation fuel in Rotterdam.

The Middle East crisis shows European aviation’s greatest vulnerability is its dependence on fossil fuels and that should be a catalyst for strengthening climate legislation, not weakening it, argues Transport & Environment.

As recent months have demonstrated, the long-term prospects for alternative sources of energy for aviation have spurred a flow of innovation.

Petrobras has selected Honeywell UOP’s ethanol-to-jet process technology for a proposed project to produce SAF at its Replan refinery in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

NASA’s X-plane call; batteries for eR66; air-to-fuel SAF process; and volatiles key to contrails.

Boston-based Sora Fuel has raised $14.6 million to build a pilot production facility.

Cathay Pacific reported a significant rise in its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) usage in 2025.

IATA says the Middle East conflict and resulting disruption to crude and jet fuel supply could force governments to reassess energy security strategies.

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.

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).

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

Every general and business aviation, cargo and commercial flight leaving Singapore will begin paying a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has deferred implementation of its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) levy, originally scheduled to begin April 1, 2026.

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

The airlines say European e-SAF mandates cannot be met and warn that other environmental legislation puts the sector’s competitiveness at risk.

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

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

EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas has named competitiveness as the “overriding objective” of Europe’s new aviation strategy.

European airline CEOs meeting in Brussels say mandates imposing the use of synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) should be delayed.

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.

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

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

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

LATAM Airlines Brazil’s CEO believes Brazil could become one of the world’s most competitive producers of SAF.

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