Emirates expands collaboration with Neste for provide of SAF

Emirates and Neste have expanded their partnership by solidifying their collaboration for the availability of over 3 million gallons of blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gasoline in 2024 and 2025. The sustainable aviation gas (SAF), which will likely be blended with standard jet gas, will likely be equipped over the course of 2024 and 2025 for Emirates’ flights departing from Amsterdam Schiphol and Singapore Changi airports.

Emirates’ expanded partnership with Neste represents the biggest quantity of SAF to be uplifted of any airline primarily based within the Center East and Africa up to now. The blended SAF will likely be comprised of over a million gallons of neat SAF. This represents a blended ratio of over 30 % neat SAF mixed with standard Jet A-1 gas.

Earlier than the top of this yr, the airline will even uplift SAF for the primary time from its Dubai hub. SAF reduces carbon emissions of air journey by as much as 80 %* over the gas’s life cycle when in comparison with utilizing standard jet gas. 

Sir Tim Clark, president Emirates Airline, stated, “At this time’s announcement is a milestone for Emirates and represents the acceleration of SAF procurement for our operations. It’s additionally one of many many initiatives we’re centered on to scale back our carbon emissions, which incorporates working fuel-efficient plane, stepping up our fleet renewal from 2024, along with driving operational gas effectivity. Our ongoing partnership with Neste additionally demonstrates our energetic engagement and assist of the quickly creating SAF business, and we hope that the sturdy demand coming from Emirates and different airways encourages the scaling up of SAF and different rising clear propulsion applied sciences.” 

Alexander Kueper, vice chairman EMEA from the renewable aviation enterprise unit at Neste, stated, “Sustainable aviation gas is a available resolution for lowering the greenhouse gasoline emissions from air journey. We’re proud to broaden our current cooperation with Emirates into 2024 as we’re ramping up our international SAF manufacturing and proceed to assist their dedication to scale back emissions by supplying our Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gasoline.”

Earlier this yr, Emirates, in partnership with Neste and different business stakeholders, efficiently accomplished the primary 100% SAF-powered demonstration flight within the area, using a Boeing 777-300ER working on 100% SAF in a single engine. The airline has made important strides together with its business companions across the technical evaluation and certification necessities that assist standardization and future approval of 100% SAF flying.

The airline’s first flight powered by SAF blended with jet gas befell in 2017 from Chicago. Since then, the airline has additionally uplifted SAF for flights from Stockholm, and at present operates flights from Paris, Lyon and Oslo with blended SAF.

Emirates has championed a lot of business and UAE authorities working teams, and is in steady dialogue with a spread of stakeholders to assist scale the manufacturing and provide of SAF. The airline, together with the UAE GCAA has actively performed an element in creating the UAE’s bold power-to-liquid (PtL) fuels roadmap, pushed by the UAE Ministry of Power and Infrastructure and the World Financial Discussion board, along with contributing to the UAE’s Nationwide Sustainable Aviation Gasoline Roadmap launched in January 2023 by the Ministry of Power and Infrastructure and GCAA. 

 *When utilized in neat kind (i.e. unblended) and calculated with established life cycle evaluation (LCA) methodologies, akin to CORSIA methodology