AIN Online: SAF Availablity Slowly Rises in Europe

Reporting from EBACE — the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition — AIN Online writes that “sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) may provide the best near-term solution for the decarbonization of aviation, it is still an industry very much in the early phases of development. In fact, the first commercially produced SAF occurred less than a decade ago.” The article quotes 4AIR President Kennedy Ricci, whose firm has launched the first SAF registry, as saying, “Anticipation over the Refuel EU mandates has suppliers holding onto fuel to help them meet those future blending requirements or at least until they have some better clarity around them. It also has some operators holding back to wait for the mandates to carry them forward.” Read more.