SAS offers passengers option to purchase biofuel

SAS is offering passengers the opportunity to purchase biofuel as part of the airline’s sustainability strategy. The initiative is a not-for-profit service, simply adding to biofuels already being bought by the airline. Customers will be able to purchase 20min “blocks” of flight time powered by biofuel, says SAS, on a per-passenger basis. The price is currently fixed at US$10 or R10 for a block. Passengers will have the option of buying biofuel when booking tickets and subsequently in the run-up to departure. “The amount of biofuel will not necessarily be used on the actual flight the traveller has bought a ticket for,” the airline points out. “But it will be used to replace fossil jet fuel to the equivalent amount in SAS’s operations.” SAS’s environmental policy includes a target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 25% by 2030. <br/>