17 Jul '12, 11am

Passenger Jet Flies on 50/50 Blend Of Jet Fuel And Cooking Oil - Gas 2.0

Passenger Jet Flies on 50/50 Blend Of Jet Fuel And Cooking Oil - Gas 2.0

Many airlines are hopping on the green band wagon. Lufthansa was the first airline to use biofuel in scheduled daily flight operations. The companies Airbus A321 flew the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route four times daily with one of its engines running on a 50/50 blend of regular fuel and biosynthetic kerosene in a six-month trial that ended in December 2011. Quantas has announced Australia’s first commercial fights powered by sustainable fuel will be on a Sydney-Adelaide return service flight this spring. And, in some friendly Canadian competition, Toronto based Porter Airlines claims to have conducted the first biofuel powered revenue flight in Canada on April 17

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