{"id":12228,"date":"2023-09-04T23:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2023-09-04T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:40:17","slug":"fiji-airways-marks-significant-sustainability-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12228","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Airways Marks Significant Sustainability Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Fiji Airways, Fiji\u2019s National Airline, is proud to announce a significant milestone on our journey towards a more sustainable future for aviation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Today, Fiji Airways\u2019 newest Airbus A350-900 XWB aircraft, named the <i><strong>Island of Vatulele<\/strong>, <\/i>arrived into Nadi, Fiji from Singapore, having flown the entire 8,520 km journey powered by a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is the first time ever that Fiji Airways has operated a flight using a SAF blend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr. Andre Viljoen, Fiji Airways Managing Director and CEO, said that this inaugural SAF blend &#8211; powered flight demonstrates Fiji Airways\u2019 commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and ensuring a sustainable future for aviation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12230\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FUJI_SAF-300x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"973\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FUJI_SAF-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FUJI_SAF-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FUJI_SAF-676x312.png 676w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/FUJI_SAF.png 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Fiji Airways\u2019 newest Airbus A350-900 XWB aircraft, named the Island of Vatulele, arrived into Nadi, Fiji from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4510,798,10174,797,4813,3965,7890,89,5637,13618,8222,5992,5670,5878,7929,2203,5500,4957,10194,4059,5676,13831,10169,13863,10617,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[3557,15717,49,47,464,420,92,625,3732,10752,160,5783,988,3427,3954,4512,3796,4335,2493,4681,2837,595,10367,2561,660,2487,3780,1757,3301,1883,1681,199,2006,7394,1567,4605,2570,9334,843,412,4438,7751,4340,2633,7863,1962,7755,413,4701,1691,1658,1916,15718,839,1019],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news","category-airbus-news","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-environmental-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-global-politics","category-green","category-green-energy-news","category-international-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-news","category-oil-gas-news","category-pacifica","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-900-2","tag-350-900xwb","tag-a350","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airport","tag-airways","tag-announce","tag-arrived","tag-aviation","tag-blend","tag-business","tag-carbon","tag-commitment","tag-communications","tag-customers","tag-delivered","tag-demand","tag-develop","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-ensuring","tag-fiji","tag-flight","tag-flown","tag-footprint","tag-fuel","tag-future","tag-growth","tag-industry","tag-international","tag-island","tag-journey","tag-market","tag-milestone","tag-nadi","tag-named","tag-national","tag-news","tag-operated","tag-pacifica","tag-powered","tag-products","tag-reducing","tag-saf","tag-significant","tag-singapore","tag-sustainable","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-vatulele","tag-worldwide","tag-xwb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}