Sustainability

We are proactive in our efforts to minimise the environmental impact of each flight. Aware of our responsibility towards our planet, we are taking actions to work towards cleaner travel and sustainability in the industry.

What Environmental Actions Are We Taking?

The aviation industry as whole has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050. We’ll do this by using the combined greener fuel, carbon offsets and developing hydrogen and electric powered aircraft. And while new technologies are being developed, we invest in offsets from Carbon Footprint, a forward-thinking sustainability carbon offset provider.  Every time we perform a flight, the emissions are offset either by our client, or by us

How Does Carbon Offsetting Work?

Our Partner, Carbon Footprint runs many projects around the world financed by organisations like us who want to offset their emissions. These projects include renewable energy generation, reducing deforestation and planting more trees. All the projects we support meet the international carbon offsetting standards. They are rigorously inspected and audited to assure that they are generating the projected carbon reductions.  Carbon “credits” are then issued against these projects for companies to purchase once these carbon savings have been verified, therfore funding more environmental programmes.  Carbon Footprint use their extensive experience to deliver programmes which are designed to make an impact, be sustainable, improve the environment and look after our climate.

Adittionally, for every tree planted, another tCO2e is offset through a Verified Carbon Standard project. The two projects we have supported are:

– A renewable energy windfarm in India whose aim is to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels in the area of Maharashtra state.

– Pacajai REDD+ Project, preventing the unplanned deforestation in native forests in the Amazon.  This is being achieved by managing the land in the form of a private conservation reserve. Through rigorous monitoring and enforcement, the project delivers exceptional social and environmental benefits.

How Do We Calculate Our Emissions?

Each aircraft has a specific fuel burn rate which together with passenger number and distance travelled therfore enables us to calculate the specific CO2 emissions for any flight and any route.

Freedom Flight Prize – Track the Progress Of Zero Carbon Aircraft Development

Carbon Footprint Ltd has launched a Global Prize for the first truly Carbon Free Flight across the Atlantic – to be completed in a plane with 100 plus passenger capacity. The prize fund (expected to run into the multimillions by the time it is won), is actively promoting sustainable developments within the aerospace and airline industry.

The competition is open to manufacturers, research/academic groups and inventors to design and fly a 100+ seater passenger aircraft powered by 100% renewable energy. The plane must complete a return trip from London to New York; each leg of the trip in under 10 hours and must finish the return leg within 24 hours of starting out on the round trip. The first to complete this historic flight will win the Freedom Flight Prize.

Track the progress of the challenge here https://www.freedomflightprize.org/