Sustainability

WE CARE FOR ECO BALANCE.

Because every mile of your journey matters.

Travel greener - save costs - protect the climate

To conserve resources, we can take environmental aspects into account when planning your trip and offer the option of offsetting CO2 emissions through climate protection projects.

The focus is on companies with a lot of business travel, which we support with everything from comprehensive CO₂ balancing of the travel sector to tailor-made measures in travel management to save both CO₂ and money.

Sustainable Travel

Supporting you

We support you in the selection of environmentally friendly hotels and means of transport, there is no need for time-consuming research. We also support you with CO2 accounting and CO2 compensation. On request, Lufthansa City Center can take over the entire process for corporate customers, from calculating CO2 emissions to receiving a donation receipt.

Our offer. Your advantage

Reporting and compensation

You receive detailed, clear and transparent statements of your emissions from all sub-areas of business travel. The calculation is based on the recognised international standards GHG, GRI, ICAO, DEFRA and VFU as well as the VDR standard.

Certified according to the highest standards of the UN (CDM) and Gold Standard. Donation receipt and certificate. Marketing and communication material is freely available.

Advantages at a glance

Allocation of emissions and costs according to cause through complete recording of all business travel areas
Identification and development of savings potentials
Long-term comparability through consistent methodology and worldwide applicability
Reduction of business travel-related CO2 emissions
CSR and branding
- Credible climate protection and promotion of sustainable development (SDGs)

CO2 balancing

Lufthansa City Center relies on the strict standards of the Association of German Travel Management (VDR). This allows the CO2 emissions to be precisely balanced, compared and classified and presented in the sustainability report. The method not only records flights, but also cars, trains, hotels and events.

CO2 compensation

In order to compensate for CO2 emissions, the compensation amount is only included in so-called “Gold Standard climate protection projects” for CO2 savings. These are projects that promote sustainable development through the use of renewable energies or energy efficiency.

Reduce your CO2 Emmissions with Sustainable Aviation Fuel

As a corporate customer of Lufthansa City Center, you can now reduce your CO2 emissions from flights by up to 80%. In cooperation with the Lufthansa Group, Lufthansa City Center is the first business travel provider to offer so-called SAF packages. SAF stands for Sustainable Aviation Fuel and is the generic term for all jet fuels that are produced without using fossil energy resources.

This is how it works

Your contribution to the energy transition

Interested customers book their SAF packages for future flights with Lufthansa City Center in the overall amount of miminum 2.000 Euro. In return, you receive an official CO2 mitigation certificate to deduct SCOPE 3 emission for your ecological balance reporting. This certificate is issued by the global engineering office of Müller-BBM located in Planegg close to Munich and accepted by all local governments to claim a coporate's carbon footprint and mitigate CO2.

Lufthansa Group refuels their aircrafts at their hubs with the respective amounts of sustainable kerosine as ordered by you within a period of maximum 12 months after buying the SAF package. The climate-friendly kerosene is then being used in aircrafts of Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Brussels Airlines or Eurowings.

Sustainable Investment

Climate-friendly SAF Tickets

Climate-friendly tickets sure have their price. The SAF price also differs depending on the compartments, as it is calculated based on the space a passenger needs on an airplane. Let's take a sample from London to Frankfurt: The CO2-saving SAF ticket in Economy Class is 112 Euro more expensive than the regular ticket on normal fossil kerosene. If we take the route New York to Frankfurt, the SAF ticket in Business Class adds a 1.066 Euro surcharge to the regular ticket price for using SAF. Every little step counts.

This price difference results from high production costs. One litre SAF is 4 times as expensive as normal fossil kerosene. However, the positive impact on the environment is tremendous: Those who book a SAF package of 2.000 Euro with Lufthansa City Center, contributes to Lufthansa Group Airlines refueling up to 1.330 litres of climate-friendly SAF, which equals more than 3 tons of CO2 saved for our planet.

As corporate customer, you can choose the percentage of offset you want to make for a particular flight route with SAF, depending on the invest and impact you are looking for: You may even start with 10% and scale up over a period of time.

Background

What is SAF?

There are various production processes with different resources and ingredients used for sustainable aviation fuels. Lufthansa Group applies SAF made from biogenic residues, for example from used cooking oils and industrial waste materials which are hydrogenated and then refined like fossil fuels. Lufthansa Group has secured sustainable kerosene for a quarter of a billion US dollars in order to be able to meet the expected demand in the coming years. However, the overall SAF supplies available on the world market today are not sufficient to use large quantities in flight operations. The Lufthansa Group is therefore active in numerous projects to promote the availability of SAF, such as the opening of the largest SAF production plant in Singapore in Q3 2022.

SAF is an important step on the way to climate-neutral air travel. Currently, the use of SAF reduces CO2 emissions by up to 80% compared to fossil fuels. In order to become 100% climate-neutral, the entire supply chain of production and delivery processes, which also produce CO2 emissions, still have to be optimized.