Norwegian is collaborating with Neste, a producer of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to enable the airline’s corporate customers to reduce their carbon footprint by purchasing SAF.
Norwegian’s modern and fuel-efficient aircraft can tank up to 50% SAF. Key to decarbonising aviation in the short-term, SAF is a drop-in fuel, which is able to reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by up to 80%.
Anders Fagernaes, Vice President Sustainability in Norwegian, commented: “With Neste’s SAF we enable corporate customers to reduce CO2 emissions from business travel. Accelerating the voluntary market for SAF sends a signal to scale production and improve economies of scale, which is much needed to reduce costs.”
In line with government blending mandates, in 2022 Norwegian will blend in 0.5% SAF on all fuel consumption in Norway and 1% in Sweden and France. All voluntary purchases from corporate customers are in addition to these government mandates.
Scan Global Logististics (SGL) is one of the airline’s corporate customers that has partnered with Norwegian and Neste to make significant steps in reducing its business travel impact on the environment. It has set an ambitious target of reducing its emissions by 50% every 10 years. Under its with Neste and Norwegian, SGL covered the additional cost for 7 tonnes of Neste MY SAF, which was used on Norwegian flights in 2021. This reduced SGL’s CO2 emissions from business ravel by 21 tonnes.
“We want to be at the forefront of the transition,” said Allan Melgaard, Global CEO in SGL. “To do so we must adopt smart technologies when they become available. With this initial pilot we reduced our CO2 emissions from business travel in 2021 by 10%, which is the reduction we need for all emissions areas every year.”
In addition, Norwegian has decided to purchase SAF for all its administration related business travel in 2022, replacing the fossil jet fuel consumption.
