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We are very pleased today to be with the French partners
whom we’ve been working with since 2005
on an initiative called: Future Alternative Fuels.
Through the CFM56, Safran has been working on the certification of new fuels,
including this biofuel which we expect to be certified at the end of the year.
We are extremely confident.
This is a historic moment, the first flight in France, in Europe,
powered by a sugar-based biofuel, so I think we are making history.
Snecma participates as an engine manufacturer
by developing new standards for the use of these future biofuels
and also provides support to airlines using the biofuels.
If we want sustainable growth in air transport,
if we want to achieve the ambitious goals the industry has set,
then developing biofuels is essential.
The CFM56 is used all around the world, with 25,000 engines in service
so it is a benchmark for air transport
and the idea was to gather data to represent the behavior of the engine with the biofuel.
I participated in the flight, it went well,
without any noticeable difference between the engine powered by biofuel
and other engine powered by a conventional fuel.
Work on the new LEAP engines is ongoing
with the aim of reducing fuel burn by 15%.
And with the new generation of engines, called open rotor engines,
we could achieve a 30 or 40% increase in fuel efficiency.