SINGAPORE AIRLINES TEMPTS ECO-CONSCIOUS PASSENGERS WITH ‘GREEN PACKAGE’ FLIGHTS
May 1st, 2017
SINGAPORE Airlines has launched ‘green package’ for its San Francisco-Singapore route, with planes burning a biofuel-kerosene blend, with the biofuel component including used cooking oils. The flights, which began on May 1, also use the airline’s most fuel-efficient aircraft, with special efforts to optimise flight paths and air traffic management to cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
The CEO of Singapore Airlines, Goh Choon Phong, said his company wanted to demonstrate how biofuels could be used in “an operationally and commercially-viable ...
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