Turkish Airlines has been awarded Airline Sustainability Innovation of the Year by CAPA – the Centre for Aviation.
CAPA said the award was based on Turkish Airlines’ innovation around the use of biofuels and airline sustainability, which is the main focus of the carrier’s business model.
Turkish Airlines’ MICRO-JET project – carried out in partnership with Boğaziçi University – aims to produce biofuels from microalgae using hydro-processed fatty acids and hydrothermal liquefaction methods.
The project contributes to nine of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Turkish Airlines plans to use this biofuels in its flights, making it one of the few global companies that can use the cleanest type of biofuel.
Turkish Airlines’ chief investment and technology officer, Levent Konukcu said: “As the airline that flies to more countries than any other airline in the world, we appreciate the sustainable aviation fuel as a key element in our sustainability strategy on reducing aviation’s environmental impact. In addition to the regular use of sustainable aviation fuel in our flights, our R&D support to the Microalgae Based Sustainable Bio-Jet (MICRO-JET) Project, which we carry out with Boğaziçi University for the production of biofuel, and finally, being one of the signatories of the SAF Declaration, prove how much we focus on sustainable aviation fuels in the fight against climate change.”
