Singapore has deferred the start of its Sustainable Aviation Fuel Levy by three months, citing cost pressures from the Middle East conflict on airlines and passengers. The levy now applies to tickets sold from 1 October 2026, for flights departing from 1 January 2027. CAAS held Singapore's underlying SAF targets unchanged, signalling flexibility on timing rather than a retreat from its decarbonisation ambitions.

Aether Fuels and FlyORO Technologies have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to jointly explore SAF supply-chain and blending solutions for Project Beacon, Aether's next-generation SAF facility under development at Aster's Pulau Bukom refinery in Singapore. The collaboration pairs Aether's waste-carbon conversion technology with FlyORO's modular blending platform, both of which trace their origins to Singapore.

KBR has been picked to provide technology licensing and Front-End Engineering Design for what would be Asia's first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet (AtJ) SAF plant, to be developed by Keppel's Infrastructure Division and Aster Chemicals and Energy on Jurong Island. The deal uses KBR's PureSAF technology, originally developed by Swedish Biofuels and now exclusively licensed by KBR worldwide. Keppel and Aster first announced their intent to jointly assess the facility earlier t