Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Safran and Singapore Airlines Sign Global SAF Declaration

(18 Feb 2022)
 Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Safran and Singapore
Airlines signed the Global SAF Declaration on the Singapore
Airshow this week, committing to advertise the acceleration of the
growth, manufacturing, and consumption of Sustainable Aviation
Fuel (SAF).

The Global SAF Declaration calls on business
companions from the aerospace, aviation and gasoline worth chains to
collectively work in the direction of the uptake of SAF as an vital a part of decarbonisation with the ambition
of making certain a gentle ramp up over
the subsequent ten years.

The declaration is open to all airways, as properly
as aviation and aerospace organisations, as a complement to their
sustainability commitments.

Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg: 9V-SMH. Picture by Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com

Singapore Airlines is the primary
airline to signal the Declaration.

Lee Wen Fen, Senior Vice President Corporate
Planning, Singapore Airlines, mentioned, “The Global SAF Declaration
reaffirms SIA’s dedication to attain internet zero carbon emissions by
2050. SIA stays firmly dedicated to our sustainability objectives.
and has been actively advancing using SAF in Singapore
along with our companions. Beyond SAF, we additionally use a number of
levers to attain our objectives, together with reaching larger
operational effectivity and investing in new-generation plane.
We will proceed to collaborate with like-minded companions globally
to work in the direction of decarbonisation and environmental sustainability
in our operations.”

All Airbus plane are presently licensed to fly
with 50% SAF and the corporate is working in the direction of rising this to
100% by 2030.

Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology and Strategy
Officer at Rolls-Royce, mentioned, “Signing the declaration is an
vital milestone for the aerospace business. We welcome the
alternative to push for extra SAF use by coming collectively throughout the
worth chain. It is vital that we mix our efforts and focus
into constructing the momentum required to drive this forwards. We are
all large advocates for the event of different propulsion
options together with hydrogen, hybrid-electric and
electrical and we
additionally recognise that SAFs are a key constructing block to set us on our
path in the direction of reaching our long-term decarbonisation objectives.”