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Nowadays all airlines are looking for any way they can to lower their prices. This is good for all premium flight passengers, because the lower the cost of fuel, the lower ticket prices are. Well, if that is indeed the case, then people who fly with Air New Zealand could be heading down the right path. In an attempt for Air New Zealand to lower its fuel bill and, of course, its carbon footprint on the world, they have chosen to test new types of vegetable oil as fuel. A successful test has already been done on a two hour flight.

Of course, the new biofuel is not all made from vegetable oil. In fact, it is more of a 50 – 50 mix. The mixer calls for half of the tank to be filled with regular jet fuel and the other half to be filled with jatropha oil, which is like a plum-sized fruit. Although jatropha is the first oil to be used, the biofuel industry is looking into other things as well. In fact, they have been showing a very strong interest in things like grass and also algae.

Don’t expect to see ticket prices start falling overnight, however. Air New Zealand said that although the flight went flawlessly, they still have a lot of analysis to do. Of course, they do say that it will be done quicker than what most people expect. That is because of how hard airline companies have been hit in 2008 with the economic downturn. The airlines say they do not want to be rocked that hard again, and thus, they are looking for something else to fall back on, and vegetable oil could just be the key.