Middle East Breakthrough: Emirates Operates First Flight in Region Using 100% SAF to Power One Engine

It wasn’t a long flight: just over an hour above the Gulf and then back to its Dubai origin. It peaked at about 32,000 feet. But when Captain Fali Vajifdar and copilot Captain Kahlid Akram of Emirates airline set their Boeing 777-300ER back down at Dubai International Airport yesterday, they completed another leg of the aviation industry’s journey toward net-zero carbon emissions.