SWISS airline to use synthetic fuels made with solar energy

  • Gas
  • July 24, 2025

Switzerland’s national airline SWISS will use sustainable fuel manufactured with solar energy for its regular flight operations at Hamburg Airport, Germany.

Swiss-based clean tech company Synhelion has delivered a 190-litre barrel of synthetic crude oil from its DAWN production facility, which to a refinery in Northern Germany. The oil, made using solar energy, was processed into Jet-A-1 aviation fuel.

The fuel was then fed into SWISS’s flight operations infrastructure via the fuel supply system at the airport.

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