Virgin Atlantic Touts 1st Flight 100 Percent Powered by ‘Sustainable’ Alternative to Jet Fuel

The Boeing 787 passenger jet, dubbed “Flight100,” took off from London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, bound for New York.

A Virgin Atlantic Airways plane taxis at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle on April 13, 2018. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo

Virgin Atlantic is celebrating becoming the first airline ever to send off a commercial airliner fully powered by “sustainable” jet fuel on a transatlantic flight.

The Boeing 787 passenger jet, dubbed “Flight100,” took off from London’s Heathrow Airport on the morning of Nov. 28 at 11:49 a.m. local time (6:49 a.m. ET) before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City at 2:05 p.m. ET, according to Flightradar24.