Swedish team buys biofuel from SAS

The Swedish Cross-Country team has decided to invest in biofuels to reduce their climate-impacting emissions. The team buys biofuel from SAS, which corresponds to fuel consumption for flights between Stockholm and Östersund, used by the team.

Since this summer, anyone who flies with SAS can choose to buy biofuel, which reduces climate-impacting carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80 percent.
"We are incredibly proud of the County Council's decision to buy biofuel. We are constantly developing more sustainable products and services and one way to contribute to this is to offer the opportunity to buy biofuels. Therefore, it is gratifying that the Swedish skiers want to be involved in the transition to a more sustainable way of traveling. Hopefully more people will be inspired to follow their example", says Karl Sandlund EVP & Chief Commercial Officer, SAS.

SAS makes no profit on the fuel that the Swedish Cross-Country team buys as it's added to the biofuel that SAS already buys.

The increased use of biofuels is a prerequisite for a more sustainable flight and for SAS to achieve its goal of reducing climate-impacting carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2030. SAS is working in various ways to promote large-scale production of sustainable biofuel in Scandinavia.

Facts about SAS and biofuel
SAS uses only biofuel with raw materials that do not affect the availability of crops used for food production, access to drinking water or biodiversity, and which use as small areas as possible.

Biofuels are delivered to the SAS bases in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen, or to a suitable airport as close to the production facility as possible. The regulations allow up to 50 percent biofuel to be mixed with the fossil fuel per flight, something all SAS aircraft are approved for.

SAS continuously collaborates with various stakeholders to accelerate the commercialization of biofuels.