GOL Flight 7725 is the First International Flight Completed Using Biofuel
August 20, 2014http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/145301/intl-commercial-flight-completed-with-amyris-total-biojet-fuel
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On July 30, GOL flight 7725 completed the first international flight powered by Amyris-Total Biofuel.
Brazilian airline GOL flew the biofuel industry's first commercial flight with Amyris' farnesane, the recently approved renewable jet fuel. The first flight came from Orlando, Florida and traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil. GOL committed to fly its Boeing 737 fleet with up to 10 percent blend of the renewable farnesane fuel on July 30.
The global aviation industry has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions up to 50 percent by 2050. Amyris will now begin to quantitatively measure the positive impact to GHG emissions and air quality with every flight using the renewable jet fuel.
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