In Spain, Repsol and Iberia took another step in their alliance to reduce emissions in the airline industry with the first long-haul flights using biofuel produced in Spain from biological waste. The biojet fuel used is from a batch produced in 2021 at Repsol’s Petronor refinery in Bilbao. The first flight to use biofuel was […]
In Spain, the chairmen of Iberia and Iberia Express and the CEO of Cepsa signed an agreement to help decarbonize the airline industry through R&D into sustainable fuels and other alternative energies such as renewable hydrogen and electricity with the aim of promoting sustainable mobility for aircraft and the fleet of airport ground vehicles. For […]
In Spain, Iberia and Repsol have made the first flight using biofuel produced from waste in Spain. The biojet used belongs to the batch produced last August at the Petronor Industrial Complex, which is located near Bilbao and belongs to the Repsol Group. The scheduled flight IB426 was operated with an Airbus A320neo aircraft of […]
In Spain, national airline Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA has flown the country’s first commercial flight using a 25% blend of biojet fuel made from camelina. The inaugural flight using an Airbus A320 flew from Madrid to Barcelona. The fuel was produced by UOP LLC, a unit of U.S.-based Honeywell International Inc. and certified […]
In Spain, Iberia has teamed with the national airports authority AENA to develop an algae-based biojet research program at the Madrid Barajas airport. National oil company Repsol will be responsible for processing the algae into fuel. The $890,000 facility is set to open next month.
In France, Airbus announced that the Spanish government, Iberia Airlines and Airbus have signed an agreement to develop a complete Spanish ‘value chain’ for sustainable and renewable aviation bio-fuel for commercial use. Other key members are expected to join the agreement shortly. The agreement promotes and backs initiatives to develop a complete bio-fuel production chain […]
