Airlines May Step Up To Fund Alternative Fuels Production

摘要

United Airlines is looking beyond plans to demonstrate a 50% gas-to-liquid synthetic fuel blend on an Airbus A320 flight from Denver in June to how airlines will be able to secure adequate supplies of gas-to-liquid kerosene for future operations. Speaking to Flight International at the International Civil Aviation Organisation alternative fuels workshop in Montreal, Robert Sturtz, United's managing director of strategic sourcing-fuel, said fuel companies may not be prepared to risk investing in a new fuel, so he wants to discuss with other airlines the possibility of carriers supporting a production plant to produce scalable amounts of gas-to-liquid kerosene.