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The new Green Fares
offer for more sustainable travel has been available for booking since
mid-February. In the first 100 days since its introduction, around 200,000
guests have already opted for a Green Fares flight within Europe or to North
Africa, thus contributing to more sustainable flying. The route with the
highest number of Green Fares bookings is Zurich-London with SWISS, followed by
Hamburg-Munich with Lufthansa.
Green Fares: more
sustainable flying with just one click
The Green Fares make
it possible to fly more sustainably with just one click, as the new fares
already include offsetting of flight-related CO₂ emissions. This is achieved by
using 20 percent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and 80 percent by contributing
to high-quality climate protection projects. The Green Fares also offer
additional status miles and a free rebooking option. The Green Fares are
offered by Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, SWISS, Edelweiss,
Eurowings Discover and Air Dolomiti on more than 730,000 flights per year
within Europe and to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The Green Fares can be
booked via the airlines' booking portals.
Lufthansa Group
offers broad portfolio of compensation options
The Lufthansa Group
airlines offers their guests various options for offsetting the CO₂ emissions
of an individual flight - from a "green fare" and additional
offsetting offers in the booking process to the possibility of making an
individual contribution during the flight or afterwards. Currently, three
percent of passengers offset CO₂ emissions through one of the offers along the
travel chain. The Lufthansa Group's goal is to inspire five percent of its passengers
to travel more sustainably by the end of the year. Last year, Lufthansa Group
passengers offset about 43,900 tons of CO₂ by purchasing Sustainable Aviation
Fuel and about 380,000 tons of CO₂ through high-quality, long-term climate
protection projects.
Lufthansa Group
pursues ambitious sustainability goals
The Lufthansa Group
has set itself ambitious climate protection goals and aims to achieve a neutral
CO₂ balance by 2050. Already by 2030, the Lufthansa Group wants to halve its
net CO₂ emissions compared to 2019 through reduction and compensation measures.
The reduction roadmap until 2030 was validated by the independent Science Based
Targets initiative (SBTi) in August 2022. The Lufthansa Group was the first
airline group in Europe with a science-based CO₂ reduction target in line with
the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. For effective climate
protection, the Lufthansa Group is focusing in particular on accelerated fleet
modernization, the use of SAF, the continuous optimization of flight operations,
and offers for its private travelers and corporate customers to make a flight
or the transport of cargo more sustainable. In addition, the Lufthansa Group
has been actively supporting global climate and weather research for many
years.
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Lufthansa Group
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