Internationally and in Australia, the commercial aviation industry is committed to the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

In March 2011, Yale University research showed significant potential for sustainable aviation fuel based on jatropha-curcas.

Australia does not produce any sustainable aviation fuels at this stage but many airlines around the globe have conducted test flights with biofuel.

Boeing said the research, conducted by Yale University's School of Environmental Studies, showed significant potential for sustainable aviation fuel based on the plant.

The study is being commissioned as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group consortium, which brings together UOP and airlines.

BRISBANE Airport has been earmarked as the site of Australia's first sustainable aviation fuel "bio-port."

A group of interested airlines has formed the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG).

Air New Zealand is one of several air carriers working to diversify and secure its energy future through participation in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group.

Member airlines represent more than 15% of the industry, and all member CEOs have signed a pledge to work on the development and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

Brazilian carrier GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. has joined a group that unites airlines and technology providers to develop sustainable aviation fuels for commercial use.

The focus of the industry has now turned to second generation sustainable biofuels (sustainable aviation fuels) that do not compete with food supplies nor are major consumers of prime agricultural land or fresh water.

This multi-stakeholder organization set a global benchmark standard on which the sustainability integrity of advanced aviation biofuel types seeking to use the claim of being a Sustainable Aviation Fuel can be judged.

Leading airlines in the aviation industry and other signatories to the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group pledge support the RSB as the preferred provider of SAF certification.

There currently is no supply of aviation biofuels in the Pacific Northwest, although potential sources were identified during a regional assessment by the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest group earlier this year (www.safnw.com).

We can build an industry and market for sustainable aviation fuels, and I intend to use Alaska Airlines' biofuel efforts to continue to make the case to the administration to locate a biorefinery in Washington."

On March 31, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing released a report which it said showed "significant potential" for sustainable aviation fuel based on the jatropha-curcas, a plant which yields oil that can replace traditional fuel.

In 2011, CAAFI and the Australian Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (AISAF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to combine efforts and share information where possible.

"The momentum in fact is building to meet those goals," said Susan Pond, chairwoman of the Australian Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Fuels and adjunct professor of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the name given to advanced aviation biofuel types used in jet aircraft and certified as being sustainable by a reputable independent third-party, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).

Citing details of research into the plant's properties, Boeing said the Jatropha curcas, freely grown in tropical and subtropical conditions in Central and South America and other parts of the world, showed significant potential as a major future source for sustainable aviation fuel.

Imperium Renewables is a stakeholder in Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN), an organization with over 40 members, that promotes the production of sustainable aviation fuels in the Northwest United States.

A report by Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest says the region has the diverse feedstocks, fuel-delivery infrastructure and political will needed to create a biofuels industry capable of reducing greenhouse gases while providing clean biofuels for aviation use, a release from Washington State University reported Wednesday.

Carbon emissions from the aviation industry have risen 153 per cent between 1971-2009, far outstripping the 102 per cent rise in total emissions over that period, Susan Pond, chair of the Australian Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Fuels, told a conference in Sydney on Wednesday.

Alaska's commercial biofuel flights come six months after Air Group partnered in a strategic initiative called Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN), a 10-month regional stakeholder effort to explore the feasibility, challenges and opportunities for creating an aviation biofuels industry in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

With certified pathways to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) now in place, the industry is moving to commercialisation of biofuels, and Susan Pond, chairwoman of the Australian Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Fuels, believes Australia has a role to play.

SAF: Yeah but you have to deal with things as they are at the time.

Just remember that SAF's first season was one to forget.

He felt that the film had instead done the SAF proud.

Southern police had been fighting back the SAF all day, he reported.

A total of 44 SAF personnel were killed during the encounter.

It was SAF tanks and their forces that stopped the water,' he said.

He said two SAF tanks gave support to the raid.

The list are the directors who had commanded the SAF.

Keep these things in mind when writing your SAF.

The war was not going well for the SAF.

A single SAF officer was killed on the spot with 3 injured.

SAF: I think the game was more like that then, the protection for players today is correct.

The SAF initially planned to take his body for identification.

But others only officially integrated into the SAF after the peace deal.

In this context, the SAF is developing new training programmes for small unit leaders.

The abandoned flats were used as a SAF training facility from 2004.

There were 7 official sports for the 2nd SAF Games.

The SAF also used the aircraft against rebel positions in the late 1980s.

Their role was primarily to support the SAF's jungle training conducted there.

Several of the SAF's top officers have thus overseas operational military experience.

SAF: Yes but the important thing is that there are certain parts of the media who don't report things accurately.

The forms must be sent to SAF on request.

SAF: Yeah but with any takeover in football there's going to be debt.

Enlisted men form the basic foundation of the SAF manpower.

SAF attributed this violation of the ceasefire to drunken soldiers.