KLM Cityhopper launched on Thursday (31/03) a series of about 80 flights from Oslo to Amsterdam using only biofuel in an Embraer 190. It plans to operate the remaining flights over the next five or six weeks, while Embraer holds measurements to assess the efficiency of biofuel in comparison with kerosene.
The flights depart from Oslo Airport, the first airport equipped to provide biofuel directly from your fire hydrant system since January this year. Besides biofuel supplied from the fire hydrant system, tank trucks will deliver the fuel to the number of flights operated by KLM Cityhopper.
"KLM believes that sustainable biofuel is important for the aviation industry," said the director Cityhopper, KLM Boet Kreiken. "For this reason, we are cooperating with various partners, including those united under the KLM for a biofuels program within the company, and to stimulate the development of the market. Our new cooperative relationship with Embraer and Oslo Airport serves to underline how important it is. "
Although Embraer has engaged in several initiatives and partnerships for research and development of biofuels in aviation, KLM flights marked the first in which the manufacturer engaged in scheduled flights, according to the president of Embraer Europe, Jorge Ramos.
KLM aims to reduce its emissions CO 2 by 20% per passenger by 2020 compared to the output in 2011, through fleet renewal, using vegetable biofuel and increasing flight efficiency with new procedures.
