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By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's most significant market program in Las Vegas high-end jets are enticing purchasers with their streamlined silhouettes, plush cabins - and increasingly, their use of alternative fuels.

Fuel producers and jetmakers are eager to display novel kinds of air travel fuel deemed less damaging to the environment, from utilized cooking oil to the clearly less attractive meat waste.

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

Their hope is that embracing eco-friendly fuel to curb emissions could make service jets more appealing to ecologically mindful buyers - particularly corporations facing questions over sustainability from investors or green project groups.

The accessibility of less polluting personal jets might also spare the abundant and famous the unfavorable publicity experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his other half Meghan over a current private jet journey to southern France.

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

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

"All of our item is inedible."

A few of the other 79 aircraft on display screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other eco-friendly fuel mixes expected to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets represent less than 0.1% of total yearly carbon emissions internationally, but can give off, typically, up to 20 times more carbon emissions per traveler mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter company Victor.

Prince Harry has actually safeguarded his periodic usage of personal jets to guarantee his family's safety, and has actually stated that on the unusual occasions he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers say occurrences such as the furore over his travel plan have added fresh difficulties for an industry currently striving to justify its contribution to cutting business expenses.

"Incidents of flight shaming including using personal jets are unfortunate when you consider that our market has provided fuel performance enhancements of 40% over the previous 40 years," stated Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier thinks fuel use will help the market make inroads with corporations and wealthy purchasers. According to market information, billionaires just have a 19% business jet ownership rate.

But even an image makeover - with jets sporting sticker labels like "this aircraft flies on renewable fuels" and organisers including alternative fuel pumps for going to planes - is not likely to please all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.

Environmentalists and some analysts remain skeptical that biojetfuels, generally mixed 50-50 with kerosene, will make a significant effect on public understandings about high-end travel.

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

Demand from business jet operators for eco-friendly fuels now far goes beyond supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow said.

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

Corporate charter companies and specialists are likewise seeing more interest from customers who desire to purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from their flights.

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

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