The Department for Transport (DfT) is due to confirm by the end of April how it will compel airlines to fly using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Dr Andy Jefferson, programme director of industry think tank Sustainable Aviation, said a SAF industry could create 60,000 UK jobs and £10 billion by 2050 if the government kick-started it.
SAF today, he said, was “very much about cooking oil”. “It’s not what the industry wants, we want more waste-based SAF in the UK and power-to-liquid [fuel derived from carbon capture].”
