Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): Latest News

Sustainable aviation fuel is the industry’s main lever for cutting lifecycle carbon emissions this decade, because it can be blended into today’s jet fuel and burned in today’s engines.

Made from waste fats and oils, agricultural and forestry residues, municipal waste, or synthetically from captured carbon and green hydrogen, it is currently a small fraction of global jet fuel supply and several times the price of conventional kerosene. Mandates, incentives and long-term offtake deals are what turn announced plants into fuel. This page gathers every AirPro News story on SAF, newest first.

What we watch

• Policy. The EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation mandate, which requires rising SAF blends at EU airports from 2025; the UK mandate; national targets in Asia; and US federal and state incentives that determine whether American production capacity gets built.
• Production. New plants and final investment decisions, the pathways behind them — HEFA today, alcohol-to-jet and gasification next, power-to-liquid e-fuels later — and the projects that are delayed or cancelled.
• Offtake and buyers. Airline and corporate offtake agreements, book-and-claim schemes that let buyers pay for SAF delivered elsewhere, and the buyers’ alliances aggregating demand.
• Aircraft and engines. Certification of 100% SAF operation, engine manufacturers’ testing, and what unblended SAF means for maintenance and materials.
• The numbers. Supply volumes, blend rates actually achieved, prices, and the gap between mandates and molecules.

Latest SAF coverage

Related topics

Sustainable Aviation category · Emissions · Hydrogen · Green technology · Propulsion · EASA

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