On April 3, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) launched two tickets incorporating biofuel costs – Go Smart Bio and Plus Pro Bio – available on all its domestic, Scandinavian and European flights.
The airline aims to use fossil-free aviation fuel equivalent on all its domestic flights by 2030, and has created a model where travellers can purchase 20-minute blocks of biofuel per flight.
Biofuel prices incorporated into these ticket prices are set at €10 (R200) per block. On a 60-minute flight, one 20-minute block of biofuel corresponds to a third of the average fuel consumption per passenger of an average flight. To buy biofuel for a ticket on a 60-minute flight for example, travellers must buy three blocks to cover the full flight time.
With Go Smart Bio or Plus Pro Bio, the ticket includes the cost of roughly 50% biofuel, calculated on an average journey, corresponding to about 60 minutes on Swedish or Norwegian domestic flights, 60 minutes within Scandinavia, 35 minutes on Danish domestic or one hour 30 minutes on European flights.
The amount of biofuel a traveller buys will not necessarily be used on the actual flight the ticket was bought for, but to replace fossil fuel to the equivalent amount in SAS’s operations.
