Eco Flights To Be Standard In Seven Years

Biofuel-powered commercial flights could become standard operations within five to seven years, according to Lufthansa’s (LH) head of aviation biofuel.Speaking in Washington Jan. 13, LH VP aviation fuel Joachim Buse said the airline’s burnFAIR project has proved that biofuels are completely feasible for commercial flights from a technological standpoint. The issue is how to produce sufficient and sustainable feedstocks at a viable cost. “From now on, it’s purely a commercial issue,” Buse told ATW.

Buse was speaking a day after the first biofuel-powered transatlantic commercial flight into the US–an LH scheduled flight from Frankfurt to Washington Jan. 12 using a Boeing 747-400 (ATW Daily News, Jan.16). The aircraft carried about 40 tons of biosynthetic fuel mix.

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