Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, is powering Aeromexico’s Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route. This marks one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service. Aeromexico has begun use of Green Jet Fuel as part of its “Green Flights” project designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Aeromexico-operated Boeing 737-700, which carries up to 124 passengers, will use a 15% blend of Green Jet Fuel made from the plant camelina and petroleum-based fuel. Mexican agency Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA) blends Green Jet Fuel with petroleum-based fuel. The agency has developed its “Flight Plan towards Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Mexico,” program which is focused on identifying and studying the elements of the supply chain of aviation biofuels in Mexico. According to ASA, the Mexican aviation sector expects biofuels to account for 1% of the fuel used in Mexico by 2015 and 15% by 2020. Aeromexico carried out the first transatlantic commercial flight from Mexico City to Madrid this past August, using Green Jet Fuel made from the Honeywell UOP process. Iberia Airlines, in partnership with Spanish oil company Repsol, also used Green Jet Fuel for a flight from Madrid to Barcelona in early October. For both flights, ASA performed the blending of the biofuel with the petroleum-based fuel to supply the fuel used to power the flights.
