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A flight powered by cooking oil takes to the skies

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: The first transatlantic flight powered only by what’s being called “sustainable aviation fuel” is due to take off from London today. Plus, a Swedish court has ruled that the country’s transport authority has to find a way to get license plates to Tesla, because postal workers are on strike. Then, TikTok’s owner ByteDance says it’s downsizing its gaming division.

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A flight powered by cooking oil takes to the skies.

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Live from the BBC World Service,

0:31.0

this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

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I'm Luke Wilson in for Leanna Byrne.

0:35.2

Good morning.

0:36.4

The first transatlantic flight powered only by what's being called sustainable aviation fuel

0:41.9

is due to take off from London in less than an hour.

0:45.1

The Virgin Atlantic flight has been part funded by the UK government and has no paying passengers

0:50.5

on board.

0:51.7

The fuel, made from cooking oil and other waste fats, is more expensive, so flight

0:56.4

prices would end up being higher, but airlines see it as a major milestone in achieving green flight.

1:03.4

The BBC's Casey Austin reports.

1:06.5

How to decarbonise flying is a very big, very difficult question.

1:11.9

A flight from London to New York today aims to demonstrate

1:15.2

part of the answer. I watch the Boeing 787 plane that Virgin Atlantic is

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