JAL flies commercial flight on Japanese SAF produced from recycled clothing

In Japan, Japan Airlines (JAL) operated a commercial flight from Tokyo Haneda to Fukuoka airport using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on February 4. The product was a blend of traditional jet kerosene and SAF produced in Japan. 

In October 2018, JAL launched a project to convert cotton clothing into SAF, produced within the country of Japan. During the project, 50 local companies helped collect approximately 250,000 pieces of clothing and with the technical support from Green Earth Institute Co., Ltd. and using a bioprocess technology developed by the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), a domestically produced SAF was successfully created in March 2020.