{"id":567092,"date":"2023-03-31T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=567092"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T06:34:13","slug":"vistara-becomes-1st-indian-airline-to-operate-long-haul-flight-on-wide-body-using-saf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vistara-becomes-1st-indian-airline-to-operate-long-haul-flight-on-wide-body-using-saf\/","title":{"rendered":"Vistara becomes 1st Indian airline to operate long haul flight on wide body using SAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vistara has become the first Indian carrier to operate a long haul on a wide body aircraft using a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when it operated the delivery flight of a Dreamliner from Charleston (US) to Delhi. This ferry flight (without passengers, only operating crew) on GE Aerospace newest GEnx-powered Boeing 787-9 aircraft using a blend of 30% SAF with 70% conventional jet fuel helped Vistara reduce about 1.5 lakh pounds of CO\u2082 emissions over the fuel\u2019s life cycle. Soon-to-be-merged-with-Air-India Vistara now has four Dreamliners in its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Among Indian carriers, IndiGo has operated Airbus A320 family aircraft and SpiceJet the turboprop Bombardier Q400 using blends of SAF with regular jet fuel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vistara has become the first Indian carrier to operate a long haul on a wide body aircraft using a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when it operated the delivery flight of a Dreamliner from Charleston (US) to Delhi. This ferry flight (without passengers, only operating crew) on GE Aerospace newest GEnx-powered Boeing 787-9 aircraft using a blend of 30% SAF with 70% conventional jet fuel helped Vistara reduce about 1.5 lakh pounds of CO\u2082 emissions over the fuel\u2019s life cycle. Soon-to-be-merged-with-Air-India Vistara now has four Dreamliners in its fleet. Among Indian carriers, IndiGo has operated Airbus A320 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}