The Airbus A380, a giant of the skies with beyond enormous dimensions that make it the largest in the world, has completed an experimental flight powered only by fuel oil.

A test aircraft completed a three-hour flight using Sustainable Aviation Fuel, or SAF, consisting of used cooking oil and waste fats. This was used in a single Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine.

The same fuel served for a second flight conducted on March 29, with an Airbus A380, and departed from Toulouse to Nice, France. The second flight served to monitor the use of SAF during takeoff and landing.

The fuel used was supplied by TotalEnergies. The SAF was made from hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) and contains neither aromatics nor sulfur.

In the last year, Airbus tested the cooking oil (SAF) on A350 aircraft in March, as well as an A319neo aircraft that flew, in October.

The company claims that airplanes flying and using SAF could reduce carbon emissions by between 53% and 71%.

Airbus ambitions to bring the world's first zero-carbon airplane to market by 2035.