Aviation Airbus and Air bp: Partnership for Sustainable Fuel and Lower Emissions

From Stefanie Eckardt | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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Air bp has signed a multi-year agreement with Airbus for the supply of Sustainable Aviation Fuels, conventional aviation fuel and related services in Germany and Spain. With this agreement, bp's aviation division enables one of the largest voluntary purchase commitments for SAF by an aircraft manufacturer.

Air bp and Airbus have signed a multi-year contract for the supply of fuel.(Image: Airbus)
Air bp and Airbus have signed a multi-year contract for the supply of fuel.
(Image: Airbus)

Air bp will support various Airbus activities, including the commercial aircraft, helicopter and military aircraft divisions. The contract covers important activities such as flight tests, customer deliveries, internal transportation with the Beluga fleet as well as the employee shuttle service, which operates daily between Toulouse and Hamburg. In addition, the agreement includes special account management, regular technical maintenance in Germany and a new cooperation with Airbus Spain for the supply and storage of aviation fuel as well as for aircraft operations.

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"The agreement underlines our strong partnership with Airbus. At the same time, it highlights our ability to offer complex, transnational solutions that support operational efficiency and the reduction of emissions," says Christian Frohn, Vice President of Air bp, explaining the significance of the partnership.

This can be achieved above all with Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). SAFs are chemically almost identical to kerosene, but are not based on fossil raw materials, and they have a significantly lower CO2 footprint than kerosene over their entire life cycle (from source to combustion). They are therefore intended to replace fossil fuels in all those areas of transportation that are difficult to electrify—for example in aviation on medium and long-haul routes.(se)

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