Congress attacks government for permitting ethanol in aircraft fuel

The Congress connected Thursday (April 23, 2026) criticised the authorities implicit allegedly permitting usage of ethanol successful aviation turbine substance (ATF), calling the determination a imaginable hazard to aviation information though the method successful question is antithetic from the blending method utilized successful automobiles, internationally approved and has already been utilized connected a commercialized flight.

On Wednesday (April 22), the Petroleum Ministry issued a notification expanding the explanation of ATF utilized successful flights to see substance blended with “synthesised hydrocarbons”, efficaciously opening the doorway to alternate fuels specified arsenic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The notification does not assistance immoderate circumstantial support for ethanol use, adjacent though ethanol is 1 of respective recognised pathways for producing SAF. Other feedstocks and routes see utilized cooking oil, carnal fats, municipal coagulated waste, cultivation residues, bio-waste, and e-SAF.