KLM uses camelina-produced biofuel for Olso to Amsterdam flights

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, a Dutch airliner, is launching around 80 flights from Oslo to Amsterdam using only biofuel on its Embraer 190 aircraft.

The flights will be operated over the coming five to six weeks, the Dutch airliner said. During these flights Embraer SA will be measuring the efficiency of biofuel in comparison with kerosene.

This means that around 80 commercial biofuel flights will supplement those flights operated previously by KLM on routes to Paris, Rio de Janeiro and the Dutch Antilles, and from New York.

The biofuel is produced from 100% RSB (Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels) certified camelina, according to KLM.

Camelina is an oilseed crop suitable for northern climates. It can be cultivated in relatively dry areas of thin soil as a rotation crop.

KLM has used camelina previously as a raw material for sustainable biofuel and chooses to use raw materials that do not have an impact on biodiversity and/or food supply.