Victor and Neste urge airlines to replicate SAF model

Victor and Neste are celebrating one year of a successful partnership together. They have now called for commercial airlines to consider replicating their working blueprint - which they believe could significantly accelerate SAF demand globally.
Since June 2022, when Victor and Neste launched this first direct-to-consumer SAF blueprint.
The average percentage of fossil fuel voluntarily replaced by SAF per booking is 30%.
Voluntary contributions are deemed essential in enabling SAF to scale quickly enough to meet net-zero targets since upcoming Government mandates will only account for 10% SAF by 2030 for the UK and 6% for the EU.
Victor and Neste believe that in the meantime, the voluntary market can already start making an immediate and significant contribution as SAF volumes are already available.
Empowered by the positive results and learnings of the partnership, Victor and Neste are now encouraging commercial airlines and airline ticket websites to replicate the model and include the option of SAF at check-out on their websites for all bookings.
Toby Edwards, Victor’s co-CEO, said: “Why not adopt our ‘Pay Here, Use There’ blueprint across the commercial airline sector? Flyers want a solution that they can trust and which allows a credible reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions.
“If airline passenger traffic more than doubles to 10 billion by 2050, as predicted, then we cannot afford to be so dependent on fossil fuels.”
“Our results so far verify the potential of voluntary contributions - including much needed cash flow - for SAF investment and growth, without being so reliant on government policy. Either way, flights are going to get much more expensive, and we should be leveraging the spending power of passengers and corporates booking business travel to scale up SAF.”