Airbus starts giving upto 5% SAF free for delivery flights; IndiGo becomes 1st airline to use this offer

NEW DELHI: Airbus has started offering upto 5% pure sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to customers taking aircraft from its Toulouse and Hamburg delivery centres. “The first airline to benefit from this offer was IndiGo, whose new A320neo took off from Toulouse on 3 July,” Airbus said.

“At their discretion, customers ferrying aircraft from our Tianjin, China, and Mobile, Alabama, delivery centres to their home base are already offered varying concentrations of SAF. Now our delivery teams are offering 5%-pure SAF to all customers departing Toulouse, and from September, to those taking delivery in Hamburg. To achieve this objective, Airbus has secured 6,805 hectolitres (HL) of SAF with different blend ratios, ranging from 30 to 49%.