Flights from NY airport fuelled by cooking oil
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CEO KLM Camiel Eurlings (M) talks to a stewardess during the first KLM flight on bio fuel from Amsterdam to New York, on March 2013. The airline will operate a weekly bio flight between the two cities. -- PHOTO: AFP
NEW YORK (AP) - A Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana's Cajun food.
The KLM flights from Kennedy Airport are powered by a combination of 25 per cent recycled cooking oil and 75 per cent jet fuel.
After the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.
KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told the New York Post that "it smelled like fries" while the plane was being fuelled.
