After thorough technical testing, the fuel depot at the airport is now being opened for climate-friendly fuels of the future.
This means that sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) can now be delivered, stored and refuelled at Munich airport, provided they meet the relevant quality specifications for Jet-A1 aviation fuel. The tank farm, which is supplied with fuel by various oil companies on behalf of the airlines, is thus also permitted to receive deliveries of SAF blends, in other words conventional paraffin with an admixture of renewable fuels. Munich airport is the owner of the entire tank infrastructure, which extends from the tank farm via a roughly 17 kilometre underground pipeline system to the aircraft parking positions. Skytanking Munich operates of the tank farm and ensures the quality control of the delivered fuels. Operationally, Skytanking is responsible for the fuelling of the aircraft, together with other providers of fuelling services.
The SAF fuels used today are mostly produced from renewable raw materials, so-called biomass to liquid fuels. The future, however, will also see synthetically produced paraffin that will be available on the market, so-called power to liquid fuels, which are produced by electrolysis using water, CO2 and renewable electricity.
