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Flights from NY airport fueled by cooking oil
CEO KLM Camiel Eurlings (L) and Schiphol airport CEO Jos Nijhuis (R) ride the fuel truck at JFK airport in New York, after the first KLM flight on bio fuel from Amsterdam to NY. The airline will operate a weekly bio flight between the two …
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Posted: 03/11/2013
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NEW YORK - 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 percent recycled cooking oil and 75 percent 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 fueled.
The waste oil from frying up crawfish, cracklins and other Cajun specialties is refined at a Louisiana plant, then trucked to JFK.
KLM says the cooking oil reduces polluting carbon emissions up to 80 percent.
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