The Indonesian airline tested jet fuel with palm-oil

The Indonesian state-owned airline FLAG PT Garuda Indonesia (PT) Tbk declared that finished flight tests of Boeing 737-800NG with use of the jet fuel mixed with palm-oil. According to the Singapore newspaper Business Times, last week the plane flew by more than 130 kilometers from the capital of Jakarta to Pelabukhan-Ratu in the southern part of the island of Java, using the jet fuel containing 2,4% of palm-oil. "Thanks to these results of PT Garuda Indonesia (PT) Tbk it is ready to study possibility of use of environmentally friendly aviation fuel on commercial flights" — declared...