Qantas says customers will pay a small premium for sustainable aviation fuel

Qantas reports that its customers are willing to pay a small premium to support a local sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry, even though SAF currently makes up about one percent of the airline’s fuel supply.

The airline aims to raise SAF to ten percent of its fuel mix by 2030, contingent on availability, while sourcing seventy percent of its fuel from Australia; the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is considering a levy on passenger airfares to help recover the higher cost of SAF, which is between two and five times that of conventional jet fuel.