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Norwegian air carriers to make first bio-fuel flights today

SAS Scandinavian Airlines and budget carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle are scheduled to make their first biofuel -powered flights today.
Norwegian air carriers to make first bio-fuel flights today

The duel milestone was first reported by Air Transport World magazine.

As reported by the ATW, the flights will depart from Bergen and Trondheim airports, respectively, and fly to Oslo. During their flights each plane will carry a mixture of fuel that includes 40 percent biofuel.

“SAS has been working to speed up commercialization of renewable fuel for more than 10 years now," said SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson.

" Even though we in SAS have reduced our total CO2 emissions by a full 13 percent since 2005, biofuel will enable us to reduce those harmful emissions a great deal more as we are heading for a more sustainable aviation industry," Gustafson continued. "This flight is proof that solutions can be found. The next step will be to create the conditions that allow this progress to be realized on a large scale in Scandinavia.”

According to Norwegian CEO Bjørn Kjos, his airline has "a clear objective to reduce our CO2 emissions by 30% per passenger between 2008 and 2015."

"The most important environmental measure is to have new aircraft, and Norwegian’s fleet is among the newest and most environment-friendly in Europe," Kjos  said. "New planes are not enough, however. Sustainable biofuel is also important. This flight with biofuel from Bergen to Oslo is therefore an important milestone in the industry’s joint efforts to make sustainable biofuel available to the airlines.”

For additional information:

Air Transport World

Tags: Fuel , Biofuel , CO2 , Transport , Europe
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