Alaska Airlines, Gevo Sign SAF Deal

Just like the offers signed by different Oneworld Alliance airline members, Alaska Airways has agreed to buy from sustainable aviation gas producer Gevo 37 million gallons of SAF per yr for 5 years, the businesses introduced Wednesday. Deliveries are anticipated to start in 2026.

The settlement falls beneath the deal signed by Gevo and Oneworld in March during which the alliance’s 14-member airways agreed to doubtlessly buy 200 million gallons of SAF per yr from Gevo’s future industrial manufacturing operations. Different airways that since have signed agreements with Gevo embrace American Airlines, Aer Lingus, Finnair and Japan Airlines.

The deal is topic to sure circumstances, together with Gevo creating, financing and establishing a number of manufacturing amenities to provide agreed-upon SAF.

Gevo on July 27 introduced its buy of about 245 acres close to Lake Preston, S.D., for its first commercial-scale SAF facility. The corporate expects to interrupt floor in September, and Gevo famous that the venture schedule ought to permit the corporate to start supply of preliminary volumes of SAF in 2025.