Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines is an airline in sustainable aviation fuel, based in Japan. It is named in 8 agreements on the SAFxCHANGE record between 2021 and 2025, having bought from 6 producers or suppliers. The 5 that state a volume add up to 3.0 billion litres (801 million gallons, 2.4 million tonnes). 4 of them were found in the news and are not yet checked against the announcement.
Buys sustainable aviation fuel to reduce carbon emissions from its flights.
Where Japan Airlines sits, from feedstock to flight
Who Japan Airlines trades with each line one counterparty, as thick as the number of agreements, coloured by its place in the value chain
Bought from
The agreements 8, newest first
| Year | Producer | Buyer | Supplier | Volume, million litres | Term, years | Deliveries from | Signed | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Green Earth Institute | Japan Airlines | 5 | 2030 | memorandum | unverified | announcement | ||
| 2025 | Nippon Paper Industries | Japan Airlines | memorandum | unverified | announcement | ||||
| 2023 | Shell Aviation | Japan Airlines | offtake | unverified | announcement | ||||
| 2023 | Raven SR | Japan Airlines | 1,718.9 | 10 | 2025 | recorded | announcement | ||
| 2022 | Aemetis Inc | Japan Airlines | 136.3 | 7 | 2025 | recorded | announcement | ||
| 2022 | Gevo Inc | Japan Airlines | 20.1 | 5 | 2027 | recorded | announcement | ||
| 2021 | Raven SR | Japan Airlines | 625 | 10 | 2025 | unverified | announcement | ||
| 2021 | Aemetis Inc | oneworld Alliance (Alaska, BA, Cathay Pacific, American, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Qatar Airways) | 530 | 7 | 2024 | recorded | announcement |
People the news names at Japan Airlines in their business roles
- Mitsuko TottoriPresident and Group CEO · 2 mentions, latest 2026-05-27
- Yuji Akasakatitle not given · 2 mentions, latest 2023-08-21
- Atsushi KitaVice President, Domestic SAF Promotion Task Force · 1 mention, latest 2025-10-21
- Tottori MitsukoGroup CEO · 1 mention, latest 2025-09-23
- Takao SuzukiExecutive Officer, Senior Vice President – Innovation · 1 mention, latest 2025-01-16
- Yuji Saitotitle not given · 1 mention, latest 2023-08-21
- Noriyuki Aokititle not given · 1 mention, latest 2023-08-21
- Masao Yumisakititle not given · 1 mention, latest 2023-08-21
- Shuei Nishizawatitle not given · 1 mention, latest 2023-08-01
In the news the latest 20 items naming Japan Airlines
- 2026-10-09 Confirmed: Singapore to start collecting green fuel levy from October 2026 The MileLion
- 2026-09-28 Japan Airlines Cuts CO₂ to 9.13M Tons, Expands Carbon Credit Strategy CarbonCredits.com
- 2026-09-18 Climeworks signs ‘first’ CORSIA-compliant carbon removal deal gasworld
- 2026-08-22 Futuristic Aircraft: 7 Planes That Will Transform Aviation by 2035 Intelligent Living
- 2026-05-27 Rival airlines ANA and JAL team up to push for sustainable aviation fuel AeroTime
- 2026-01-30 From fashion to aviation: Doris Tan leads Shell’s green jet fuel take-off The Business Times
- 2025-12-26 JAL steps up sustainable aviation efforts TTG Asia
- 2025-11-20 Asia Pacific aviation on track to meet 5% sustainable fuel target: Industry body CNA
- 2025-10-21 Flying Planes and Growing Forests: A Joint Challenge by Sumitomo Corporation, Nippon Paper Industries and JAL to Produce Domestic SAF from Tohoku Sumitomo Corporation
- 2025-10-14 JAL invests in biorefinery that will produce SAF Biofuels International Magazine
- 2025-10-13 Oneworld and Breakthrough Energy Ventures Launch SAF Innovation Fund ResourceWise
- 2025-09-26 Oneworld Airlines Announce $150M Investment Fund To Advance SAF Technologies Simple Flying
- 2025-09-23 Oneworld airline partners join with Breakthrough Energy Ventures to invest in new SAF technologies GreenAir News
- 2025-09-18 oneworld airlines launch $150M Bill Gates-backed fund to advance SAF development AeroTime
- 2025-09-18 American Airlines, Alaska Air Lead New $150 Million Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tech Fund ESG Today
- 2025-09-17 Airlines pile into new $150m sustainable aviation fuel fund Global Venturing
- 2025-07-10 Cosmo Energy Holdings Counters Global Warming with Sustainable Aviation Fuel 日経BP
- 2025-03-25 Airbus and Japan Airlines Join Biofuel Collaborative woodworkingnetwork.com
- 2025-03-17 JAL, Airbus, Nippon Paper Industries, Sumitomo Corporation, GEI sign MoU to collaborate on pure Japan-domestic wood-based SAF｜JAL Group - Press Release 日本航空
- 2025-03-07 NASA and Boom Supersonic Achieve Milestone in Quiet Supersonic Flight freerepublic.com
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A company page draws on the SAFxCHANGE record: the agreement table (2013 to late 2023), the plants table (December 2023) and what the reader has found in the news since, marked unverified until checked. The categories follow the SAFxCHANGE value-chain map; they were assigned from the company's role in the deals and plants and from what is written about it, and a company can fill more than one. Names are matched by their words, so a company recorded under two very different names may show on two pages. Cite as: eFlight SAFxCHANGE, Japan Airlines: sustainable aviation fuel agreements, plants and people, https://eflight.com/saf/company/japan-airlines, retrieved 2026-10-18. Terms. To correct the record, write to [email protected].