sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

A new study has been released that sets a framework for Latin American and Caribbean airlines to achieve both net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

As Rolls-Royce wraps up hydrogen-fueled engine tests, attention focuses on dual-fuel, combustion and cryogenic capabilities.

Despite its own acute financial challenges, the airline industry led the way in terms of collective post-COVID industry sustainability initiatives.

More feedstock-to-fuel pathways are needed to avoid constraints on sustainable aviation fuel capacity.

Japan Airlines reports that it achieved its sustainability targets for its most recent financial year and is also on track to achieve its longer-term goals.

Conflict-related spikes in fuel prices could be a timely wake-up call for European investment in SAF production.

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.