Airlines
United Airlines Launches SAF Purchasing Alliance
The Eco-Skies Alliance program aims to help create the economies of scale needed to make sustainable aviation fuel commercially viable.
United Airlines and Eco-Skies Alliance partners have committed to buying 3.4 million gallons of SAF this year for the carriers' fleet, including its long-haul Boeing 777-300ERs. (Photo: United Airlines)
United Airlines and Eco-Skies Alliance partners have committed to buying 3.4 million gallons of SAF this year for the carriers' fleet, including its long-haul Boeing 777-300ERs. (Photo: United Airlines)

United Airlines and a group of more than a dozen other companies have committed to purchase some 3.4 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel this year under United’s newly launched Eco-Skies Alliance program, the Chicago-based carrier said Tuesday. That volume of SAF would eliminate about 31,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, or enough to fly passengers over 220 million miles, added United.