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Customers booking air charter services next month departing from Singapore will have to pay a new national sustainale aviation fuel (SAF) levy, applicable to flights departing on or after October 1. The scheme—part of a national SAF mandate announced in November—is intended to help Singapore meet its 1% aviation fuel blending target for this year.
All commercial passengers, be they airline customers or private charter users, will be subject to the levy, charged on a per-aircraft basis and varying depending on the distance traveled. The actual amount rises across four geographical bands and the aircraft’s size.
For example, a Bombardier Challenger 650 would pay between S$100 and S$1,040 per flight, while a Gulfstream G650 would be between S$190 and S$1,950. Training, charitable, and humanitarian flights will be exempt, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS).
In 2025, the national Singapore Aviation Fuel Co. (SAFCo) was established to aggregate demand and centrally procure SAF, funded by upfront levies.&nbsp;Last month, CAAS, SAFCo, and nine other companies launched Singapore’s “first trial for central procurement of voluntary SAF.”
Singapore’s SAF uplift target is projected to rise to 3% to 5% of national aviation fuel needs by 2030. In November, SAF producer Aether Fuels and energy and chemical solutions company Aster also signed an agreement to develop a <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-11-12/aether-fuels-partner-singapore-saf-refinery">commercial-scale SAF refinery</a> in Southeast Asia.

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