Carbon technology company Air Company is introducing a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from captured carbon dioxide, the company announced this week, and has secured purchase orders from airlines including Virgin Atlantic and JetBlue.
Those carriers and aviation company Boom Supersonic, among other firms, have agreed to purchase over 1 billion gallons of the fuel, dubbed Airmade SAF.
Virgin
Atlantic’s commitment is for up to 100 million gallons over 10 years and JetBlue’s is for 25 million gallons over five years and is
“in support of JetBlue Ventures’ direct capital investment into Air
Company’s Series A funding round,” according to Air Company.
Holly Boyd-Boland, Virgin Atlantic's vice president of
corporate development, said: "We're
excited to be working with Air Company to reach our ten per cent SAF target by
2030."
Air Company aims to enable “a circular process that has the potential to address over one billion metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. Using the same proprietary technology that mimics photosynthesis to create its consumer ethanol, [the] company has developed and deployed its single-step process for CO2-derived fuel production using renewable electricity.”