Jet2.com has announced its intentions to use a 1% blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at London Stansted airport this year, having purchased around 650 tonnes from Shell.
This latest announcement takes the company’s total SAF uptake agreements to approximately 1,000 tonnes of neat SAF, having previously announced it will also be using blended SAF at Bristol Airport. “We see SAF as critical in helping the industry decarbonise and as well as doing this, we can use this to ensure our operations are ready for SAF uptake both now and in the future, when we anticipate its use will grow materially,” explained Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays.
However, he continued: “Unfortunately, there is still some way to go and without more supplies of UK SAF and greater support to incentivise its uptake and reduce its cost, our industry and UK holidays are at a disadvantage. The UK Government must implement the price revenue mechanism earlier than the current timeline of 2026”.
Jet2 has also previously made an equity investment into a new SAF production plant to be constructed in the north west of England which, when operational, will provide jet2.com with more than 200 million litres of SAF.
Jet2.com to use SAF at London Stansted in 2024
