SAF for the same price as Jet A1 Fuel at Farnborough Airport
Between the 1st of the 18th of July and coinciding with start of the Farnborough International Airshow, the airport has offered its customers SAF for the same price as Jet A1 Fuel. This initiative aimed to encourage customers to use SAF, which can reduce lifecycle CO2 emissions by up to 80%. Their goal, to highlight the importance of reducing SAF costs to encourage users to switch.
Farnborough Airport is the largest business aviation airport in the UK, and the first in the world to become carbon-neutral in 2018. They introduced SAF in 2021 to help aircraft reduce their emissions.
This initiative is part of the airport’s recently published Net Zero Roadmap, which commits to net-zero emissions within its ‘direct or indirect control’ by 2030.
The airport has also committed to reducing emissions by over 40% before 2035. This includes emissions from aircraft landing and take-off cycles, as well as from passenger journeys to and from the airport.
