Transport Secretary Targets ‘Jet Zero’ as he Heads for New York on Sustainable Fuel Flight

Transport Secretary Mark Harper is on board the first transatlantic flight using sustainable aviation fuel (Saf), having described it as being a “step” toward guilt-free flying. Virgin Atlantic became the first airline to use Saf to fuel a passenger plane as one of its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners took off from London’s Heathrow Airport at 11:45 a.m. headed to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Saf is created from recycled cooking oil and animal fat waste and can be used to fuel planes as long as it is mixed with up to 50 percent kerosene. The Civil Aviation Authority eventually granted an operating permit to Virgin Atlantic after analysing ground tests, including with an engine running on 100 percent Saf....