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By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's greatest industry show in Las Vegas luxury jets are enticing buyers with their streamlined silhouettes, luxurious cabins - and significantly, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel producers and jetmakers are keen to showcase unique kinds of aviation fuel deemed less hazardous to the environment, from used cooking oil to the clearly less attractive meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have actually acquiesced ecological pressure on aviation and dedicated to in half carbon emissions by 2050 compared to 2005.

Their hope is that embracing eco-friendly fuel to suppress emissions might make service jets more attractive to environmentally mindful buyers - particularly corporations facing concerns over sustainability from shareholders or green campaign groups.

The schedule of less contaminating personal jets could likewise spare the abundant and well-known the negative publicity experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a current private jet journey to southern France.

Five Gulfstream jets on display in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.

The current waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food market," said Bryan Sherbacow, primary commercial officer of Boston-based biofuel producer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste used by Gulfstream.

"All of our item is inedible."

Some of the other 79 airplane on display screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other sustainable fuel blends expected to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets account for less than 0.1% of total yearly carbon emissions globally, however can release, usually, up to 20 times more carbon emissions per traveler mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter firm Victor.

Prince Harry has actually safeguarded his periodic use of private jets to guarantee his family's safety, and has actually stated that on the uncommon events he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers say incidents such as the furore over his schedule have actually added fresh obstacles for a market currently making every effort to justify its contribution to cutting corporate expenses.

"Incidents of flight shaming involving making use of private jets are unfortunate when you think about that our market has actually provided fuel efficiency enhancements of 40% over the past 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier thinks increased sustainable fuel use will help the industry make inroads with corporations and rich buyers. According to industry data, billionaires only have a 19% company jet ownership rate.

But even an image transformation - with jets sporting sticker labels like "this aircraft flies on sustainable fuels" and organisers including alternative fuel pumps for going to airplanes - is unlikely to satisfy all critics at the Oct 22-24 high-end jet occasion.

Environmentalists and some analysts stay doubtful that biojetfuels, typically mixed 50-50 with kerosene, will make a significant influence on public understandings about high-end travel.

"No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make company jets look eco-friendly," stated air travel expert Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from service jet operators for eco-friendly fuels now far surpasses supply and their interest might drive future production, Sherbacow stated.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, might broaden production approximately 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter companies and experts are likewise seeing more interest from customers who want to buy carbon credits to offset emissions from their flights.

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions played a function in a business jet utilization study his company just recently completed for a Fortune 500 business.

"At the end of the day, I think that rate, cost per hour, range, speed and efficiency, that's still the (sales) driver. But I think people are ending up being more familiar with the sustainability of operations and how it affects the world." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)