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By Allison Lampert

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

Fuel manufacturers and jetmakers are eager to display unique kinds of aviation fuel deemed less damaging to the environment, from used cooking oil to the noticeably less attractive meat waste.

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

Their hope is that embracing renewable fuel to suppress emissions might make service jets more attractive to environmentally conscious buyers - specifically corporations dealing with concerns over sustainability from shareholders or green campaign groups.

The accessibility of less contaminating private jets might likewise spare the abundant and famous the unfavorable publicity experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan over a recent personal jet journey to southern France.

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

The most current waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are by-products of the food industry," said Bryan Sherbacow, chief business officer of Boston-based biofuel manufacturer 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 mixes expected to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets account for less than 0.1% of total annual carbon emissions globally, however can emit, typically, as much as 20 times more carbon emissions per traveler mile than jetliners, according to the London-based personal charter company Victor.

Prince Harry has defended his occasional usage of private jets to ensure his family's security, and has said that on the rare events he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers say occurrences such as the furore over his itinerary have added fresh obstacles for an industry currently aiming to justify its contribution to cutting business costs.

"Incidents of flight shaming involving using personal jets are unfortunate when you think about that our market has actually delivered fuel effectiveness improvements of 40% over the previous 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier believes increased sustainable fuel usage will help the market make inroads with corporations and rich purchasers. According to market information, billionaires just have a 19% service jet ownership rate.

But even an image transformation - with jets sporting sticker labels like "this airplane flies on eco-friendly fuels" and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for going to aircrafts - is unlikely to satisfy all critics at the Oct 22-24 high-end jet event.

and some analysts stay doubtful that biojetfuels, generally combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a substantial impact on public understandings about high-end travel.

"No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make service jets look eco-friendly," stated aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from organization jet operators for sustainable fuels now far surpasses supply and their interest might drive future production, Sherbacow said.

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

Corporate charter business and specialists are likewise seeing more interest from customers who wish to buy carbon credits to balance out emissions from their flights.

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, said emissions contributed in a business jet usage study his company recently completed for a Fortune 500 business.

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