In Mexico, the country’s largest airline, Aeromexico, has just begun using a 25% biofuel mixture on its flights from Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica.
As part of the “Green Flights” project designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a Boeing 737 will now fly the route using a mixture of 75 percent conventional jet fuel and 25 percent synthetic paraffin biokerosene.
Aeromexico carried out its first transoceanic commercial flight using biofuels last month on the Mexico City-Madrid route.
Aeromexico is the latest airline to fly its planes on biofuel. Along with Boeing, the two companies powered a flight from Mexico City to Madrid using a General Electric motor that ran on bio-combustible fuel.
The flight, which took off at the beginning of August, had 250 passengers on board. The airline plans to make the flights more regular by implementing a programme that will see its Boeing 737-700 planes making commercial flights to San Jose in Costa Rica, as well as other destinations.
The Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport, along with the Airports and Auxiliary Services were also involved in the launch of the biofuels’ flight. The jet fuel was made from a mixture of petroleum-based jet fuel and oil purchased from a jatropha curcas oilseed plant in Mexico.
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