US airlines to back sustainable aviation fuel

Sustainability effort: A passenger waits at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. A US airline group will pledge to work with the government and others to help rapidly expand production and deployment of sustainable aviation fuel. — AP

WASHINGTON: Major US airlines plan to announce that they will back a voluntary industry target of three billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in 2030 as the White House looks to reduce aviation sector emissions, sources told Reuters.

Airlines for America, an industry trade group, in March had set a 2030 goal of producing and deploying two billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).