LATAM sets sustainable aviation fuel goal for 2030

LATAM Airlines Group plans for 5% of its fuel to be sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by the end of this decade. The Santiago-based company is the first airline in Latin America to make such a commitment. “We are going to seek to consume five percent of our [fuel] consumption in sustainable aviation fuels by 2030, and we are going to privilege production of sustainable aviation fuels from Latin America,” Roberto Alvo, the company’s CE says. “Today there is no SAF production in the region, and we are announcing this as a first very important step of generating the incentives so that production can start in the region,” he adds. LATAM sees itself as a conduit to supporting increased use of SAF in Latin America, Alvo adds. “We want to start an open conversation between governments and producers and companies to generate the set of public policies that will allow the production of sustainable aviation fuels in South America,” he says. “South America has great advantages for this. We have all we need in order to be one of the most efficient producers in the world.”<br/>