{"id":651679,"date":"2025-11-07T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651679"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:23:10","slug":"mandates-for-saf-blending-without-incentives-will-hurt-airlines-says-iata-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mandates-for-saf-blending-without-incentives-will-hurt-airlines-says-iata-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandates for SAF blending without incentives will hurt airlines, says IATA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandates for blending sustainable aviation fuel with jet fuel without incentives are a &#8220;no-go area&#8221; and such a situation would hurt airlines, a senior IATA official said on Thursday amid authorities pushing ahead with efforts to reduce carbon emissions. <\/p>\n<p>The government has set a target to have 1 per cent blending of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) by 2027, 2 per cent by 2028 and 5 per cent by 2030 for international flights. India is one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing civil aviation markets, and with the availability of feedstock, the country also has significant potential for producing SAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandates for blending sustainable aviation fuel with jet fuel without incentives are a &#8220;no-go area&#8221; and such a situation would hurt airlines, a senior IATA official said on Thursday amid authorities pushing ahead with efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The government has set a target to have 1 per cent blending of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) by 2027, 2 per cent by 2028 and 5 per cent by 2030 for international flights. India is one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing civil aviation markets, and with the availability of feedstock, the country also has significant potential for producing SAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651679","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}