Menzies and FlyORO to expand SAF blending at European airports

Menzies Aviation and FlyORO on June 30 signed an MoU to explore AlphaLite SAF blending at more than 16 European airports. The agreement ties Menzies’ fuel-farm and into-plane network to a containerized system that can move blending closer to uplift, where airports still lack the hardware to store, blend and deliver SAF, especially eSAF.

Menzies will draw on its management of 65 fuel farms, 67 into-plane fueling operations and more than 3.7 million aircraft fuelings a year. The company is the world’s largest independent aviation fuel services provider. Marco di Mario, Menzies’ executive vice president fuels, is leading the fuel push as the company looks to add SAF handling capacity across its European footprint.

FlyORO’s AlphaLite is built into a standard 40-foot shipping container. Aviation Week put each unit’s output at up to 2.16 million liters, or 570,000 gallons, of blended fuel a day. Genevieve Toh, FlyORO’s chief marketing officer, said the concept of “last-mile blending” is still relatively new and that real-world deployments help regulators, operators and airports understand how it can coexist with established fuel supply structures.

The European Commission’s ReFuelEU Aviation framework is pushing the market toward higher SAF availability, while the UK SAF Mandate took effect on Jan. 1, 2025, starting at 2% in 2025 and rising to 10% in 2030 and 22% in 2040.

FlyORO first deployed AlphaLite at Jet Aviation’s hangar facility in Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park in 2023. A second installation followed in October 2025 at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Australia under a collaboration with Wagner Sustainable Fuels and Boeing. The technology is already in commercial use in Australia.