News Roundup March 2026

EUROPE:

Air bp has signed a multi-year contract with Airbus for the supply of sustainable aviation fuel, as well as conventional jet fuel and associated services, across Germany and Spain. The aviation fuel company says this is one of the largest voluntary offtakes of SAF by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The contract covers activities such as flight testing, customer deliveries, internal transport via the Beluga fleet, as well as the employee shuttle service that operates daily between Toulouse and Hamburg.

Neste and World Fuel Services have extended their existing relationship with a five-year agreement that will expand the supply of Neste’s SAF at more than 100 airports across World Fuel’s UK and European network to its commercial and business and general aviation customers. Neste’s renewable fuels refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is currently capable of producing up to 500,000 tonnes of SAF annually. “As Neste is scaling its global SAF production capability from 1.5 to 2.2 million tonnes per annum in 2027, leveraging World Fuel’s extensive network of airports in Europe will increase the availability and flexibility of SAF supply for airlines,” said Carl Nyberg, SVP Commercial, Renewable Products at Neste.

Swiss synthetic aviation fuel company Metafuels has announced a $24 million funding round to progress ambitions to bring its methanol-to-jet (MtJ) technology to market at commercial scale. The round is led by UVC Partners, with participation from existing investors including Energy Impact Partners, Contrarian Ventures, RockCreek, Verve Ventures and Fortescue Ventures. The capital, says Metafuels, will lay foundations needed for multi-plant deployment across Europe, including progressing facilities towards FEED, FID and implementation, as well as commercial and financial project development activities. Metafuels is currently preparing its MtJ demonstration plant at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland for operation, while advancing Turbe, its first commercial e-SAF facility in the Port of Rotterdam.

Dublin-based SAF market accelerator Future Energy Global (FEG) has announced the completion of a SAF Scope 3 transaction supported by structured trade finance from carbon investment management and advisory firm Artemeter. The transaction brings together a global airline and a major corporate purchaser (both unnamed) seeking to address business travel emissions through the retirement of SAF-derived Scope 3 credits. FEG originated and structured the underlying SAFc purchase and sale agreements, while Artemeter provided the capital required to execute and settle the transaction, enabling the timely execution of the trade and bridging the gap between certificate purchase and corporate settlement.

Swedish airports operator Swedavia says under its annual SAF procurement round for 2025, a total of 300 tonnes of SAF were ordered, of which 215 tonnes were on behalf of Swedavia, which has annually procured SAF for all its business flights since 2016. Last year, Luleå Municipality and Nordic ground handling company Aviator were new participants, while SOS Alarm, which is responsible for Sweden’s emergency phone number, took part for the first time. Work has begun on the joint procurement process for 2026.

LOT Polish Airlines has become the first airline to report their data in the IATA CO2 Connect emissions calculator to account for carbon emissions reductions related to the usage of SAF. The SAF calculation follows specific accounting rules and practices for how to include SAF in per-passenger CO2 data. The initiative recently surpassed the 100-participant mark.

AMERICAS:

FedEx has introduced SAF at two more US airports, Dallas Fort Worth International and New York John F Kennedy International, bringing the total number of major airports using blended SAF to five over the past year. Combined, the agreements cover the equivalent of 5 million gallons of neat SAF. Through a contract with fuel provider World Fuel Services, FedEx will receive a total of 2 million neat gallons of SAF at DFW and JFK, to be delivered as a minimum 30% blend. With the fuel deliveries to DFW that began in December, FedEx believes it becomes the first airline – cargo or passenger – to begin purchasing SAF there outside of a pilot project. After achieving its target of a 30% reduction in aircraft emissions intensity from a 2005 baseline in FY24, the operator expanded the goal to a 40% reduction by 2034 through the use of SAF and other efficiency improvement projects such as aircraft modernisation and fuel saving operational initiatives.