Eurowings partners with Greenlyte on sustainable aviation fuel lab at Düsseldorf Airport

The cost of producing PtL-SAF remains high—up to ten times more expensive than traditional fossil kerosene—and current global production is limited to laboratories and test facilities. Wider adoption depends on increased availability and reduced prices, which would help meet future blending requirements.

“The future of flying must be both more sustainable and affordable. The SAF real-world laboratory at our largest site in Düsseldorf demonstrates in concrete terms how electricity-based SAF can be made technologically feasible. However, commercial viability is just as crucial. In order to get the market ramp-up underway, policymakers should develop measures that promote investment in PtL production facilities and, through this, help close the price gap between PtL-SAF and fossil kerosene,” says Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof.

“Eurowings‘ declaration of intent to purchase SAF produced at our airport is an important and strong signal,” said Lars Redeligx, CEO of Düsseldorf Airport. “The provision of sustainable fuels is of central importance for the sustainable transformation of our industry. In order for electricity-based SAF to be offered at a lower price in the future, production ramp-up must be strengthened and improvements in the manufacturing process achieved through innovative approaches. That is why we are very pleased to be working with Euref Campus and Eurowings to advance the project of the Essen-based start-up and thus move one step closer to the SAF real-world laboratory at our airport."

“We are proud to have found two pioneering partners in North Rhine-Westphalia in Eurowings and the airport, who believe in the potential of our technology for climate-neutral flying,” says Florian Hildebrand, CEO and co-founder of Greenlyte. “With this project, we are taking the next big step: we want to show that eSAF can be produced cost-effectively and scalably – and that this is precisely how our technology will become a catalyst for transforming aviation. The project fits seamlessly into our project portfolio and underlines that defossilization cannot be achieved through innovation alone, but through bold partnerships.”