From the Dubai International Airport (DXB), the first Emirates aircraft using sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, supplied by Shell Aviation have taken off.
On October 24, Emirates’ flight EK 412, which was headed for Sydney, was one of the first to use SAF.
315,000 gallons of mixed SAF have been provided by Shell for usage at the airline’s hub in Dubai.
Over the past few weeks, Emirates has been able to power several missions thanks to this first-ever shipment of SAF to the airline in Dubai.
“We’re moving ahead with proactive initiatives to enable environmentally friendly flying now and in the years to come, and powering flights via our Dubai hub is merely one of the steps we’ve taken to reduce emissions,” stated Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline.
“We have quite a long way to go, but we hope that our collaboration with Shell Aviation will encourage more manufacturers to close supply gaps and provide SAF at major centers like Dubai and other locations on our network.”
“Emirates and Shell enjoy a long history of cooperation, and we are delighted to continue our journey jointly to enable SAF deployment in the UAE,” stated Jan Toschka, the president of Shell Aviation. This historic first-ever SAF supply to Emirates in Dubai serves as an illustration of what is possible when various aviation value chain components work together.We anticipate that this significant achievement will spur additional progress in the SAF implementation across the aviation sector in the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding area.
In January, Emirates conducted the first demonstration flight powered exclusively by SAF in the region.
The travel company has been actively pushing for standardization and the eventual accreditation of 100% SAF, which is not yet authorized for widespread commercial use, in order to increase industry knowledge of SAF use in greater blends as well as its performance, safety, and dependability.
The airline started utilizing SAF in 2017 on the flight from the city of Chicago, and since then, blended SAF has been used on flights from Stockholm, Sweden, Paris, France, Lyon, and Oslo.