The carrier said on Friday the flight would be made possible by using so called sustainable aviation fuels or bio fuel.

Peter Gerber is the chairman of Lufthansa Cargo Group.

I'm flew a flight to become CO two neutral if like in this case, it uses biofuel, which already includes CO two Way bought this biofuel on it was filled into the tank together with our partners on.

Then the flight could take off.

However, Gerba isn't expecting biofuel to become used more widely anytime soon because he says it's between three and six times more expensive than conventional kerosene.

Global oil demand has been crushed by the events of this year, with BP saying it may never recover to pre crisis levels, leading to the closure of refineries.

That's prompting some owners toe opt for cleaner alternatives, converting plants to produce biofuels.

Europe's annual biofuel production capacity is currently three million tons, with Barclays analyst Joshua Stone predicting in October that that is set to increase toe eight million tons per year.