Qantas announced it will operate Australia’s first commercial flights powered by sustainable aviation fuel on 13 April 2012.The flights, a Sydney-Adelaide return service operated by an Airbus A330, will be powered by a biofuel derived from used cooking oil (split 50:50 with conventional jet fuel). Produced by SkyNRG, the fuel has been fully certified for use in commercial aviation and endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund. Its ‘life cycle’ carbon footprint is around 60 per cent smaller than that of conventional jet fuel.
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