In China, Airbus has opened a new sustainable aviation chapter in China as an A320neo for China Eastern Airlines – powered by a five percent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) fuel blend – took off for the first time from its Airbus Delivery Centre in Tianjin. The SAF for the delivery flights in China is produced […]
In China, after successfully completing its 85-minute test flight on biofuels last week, China Eastern Airlines announced it will begin running commercial flights on 100% biofuel. The Sinopec biofuels the airline is using is produced from palm oil and from used cooking oil. The cost of turning used cooking oil into jet fuel is more […]
In China, an 85-minute Chinese Eastern Airlines flight landing at Shanghai airport on Wednesday was flown on Sinopec’s mix of used cooking oil and palm oil aviation biofuel. The Airbus A320 was said to have flown no differently than when flying on traditional aviation fuel. The biofuel blending level was not reported.
