Air France: First Long-haul Flight between Paris and Montreal with Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Here’s some news that gives us hope for the future, particularly for the progress made by airlines in reducing their environmental impact.

Today, Air France, Total, Groupe ADP and Airbus carry out a flight between Paris and Montreal with an Air Airbus A350-900, powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

In concrete terms, 16% of the fuel was composed of SAF, which avoided the emission of 20 tons of CO2.

Along with this flight, there were two other notable firsts:

Air France is a pioneer in this field: it was the first airline to include a Director of Sustainable Development and New Mobilities in its team. Vincent Etchebehere was previously Air France Canada General Manager.

The choice of Montreal for this premiere is a logical next step:

Canada was chosen as the launch destination for the A350-900 between Paris (CDG) and Toronto (YYZ). A flight I had the opportunity to review in Business Class.

Air France is committed to reducing its CO2 emissions by 50% per passenger/km by 2030 compared to 2005. It must be said that French legislation now provides for the incorporation of 1% of biofuel on all flights departing from France from 2022.

At the same time, Airbus is conducting several series of tests to certify airliners to fly with 100% SAF in the coming decades.

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