Emirates operates world’s first A380 demo flight with 100% sustainable aviation gas.
Emirates has turn out to be the world’s first airline to function an A380 demonstration flight utilizing 100% Sustainable Aviation Gasoline (SAF).
Commanded by Captain Khalid Binsultan and Captain Philippe Lombet, the flight took off from Dubai Worldwide Airport (DXB) with one in every of 4 engines powered on 100% SAF, serving to show its potential as a drop-in alternative that matches jet gas’s technical and chemical necessities, whereas being a extra sustainable various.
It paves the best way for future standardisation, qualification and adoption for 100 per cent SAF flying, as governments undertake broader methods to help the manufacturing and scale up of SAF.
The A380 demonstration flight underlines the efficiency and compatibility of SAF, making it a protected and dependable gas supply, and contributes to the rising physique of analysis carried out by the trade to judge the useful results of 100 per cent SAF on plane efficiency.
SAF is at the moment capped at a 50 per cent mix restrict in engines for business flights.
The Emirates flight comes because the aviation trade, worldwide organisations, regulatory our bodies and high-level officers driving policy-related choices converge in Dubai for the Third Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO) Convention on Aviation and Different Fuels (CAAF/3).
Final week, sturdy engine testing for an A380 Engine Alliance GP7200 engine utilizing 100% SAF was carried out, with the target of validating the engine’s functionality to run on the specifically blended 100 per cent drop-in SAF with out affecting its efficiency or requiring any modifications. Floor engine testing passed off on the state-of-the-art Emirates Engineering Centre in Dubai.
Adel Al Redha, Chief Working Officer, Emirates Airline stated:
This marks one other important step in validating the usage of SAF in one of many engines of the A380, a wide-body plane with 4 engines.
“The rising international demand for lower-emission jet gas alternate options is there, and the work of producers and suppliers to commercialise SAF and make it out there can be vital within the coming years to assist Emirates and the broader trade advance our path to decrease carbon emissions,”
Earlier this yr, Emirates efficiently accomplished the primary 100% SAF-powered demonstration flight within the area on a GE90-powered Boeing 777-300ER.
Final month, the primary Emirates flights working with SAF offered by Shell Aviation took off from Dubai Worldwide Airport (DXB). Shell equipped 315,000 gallons of blended SAF to be used on the airline’s hub in Dubai.
The airline lately expanded its partnership with Neste for the provision of over 3 million gallons of blended SAF in 2024 and 2025 for flights departing from Amsterdam Schiphol and Singapore Changi airports.
Emirates at the moment uplifts SAF in Norway and France and the airline continues to hunt alternatives to make use of SAF at numerous airports as provide turns into out there.
EMIRATES OPERATES WORLD’S FIRST A380 DEMO FLIGHT WITH 100% SAF, November 22, 2023
