Forest fuel: Alaska Airlines completes first wood-powered commercial flight

‘Alaska Airlines used a renewable jet fuel with a 20-percent blend of forest residuals, such as tree branches, to power a flight from Seattle to Washington, DC,, marking the first commercial flight to do so.
The tree branches and limbs used to make the alternative-fuel blend were collected after “the harvesting of managed forests” in the Pacific Northwest, according to Alaska Airlines. The jet fuel was produced by Washington State University’s Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA).
The flight left Monday morning from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and headed to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. The airline called the 20 percent blend “chemically indistinguishable from regular jet A fuel.” The flight used 1,080 gallons of the biofuel, according to the airline.’
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