How to balance business effectiveness with environmental responsibility in business travel?

Do you remember when planning business trips mainly involved finding the cheapest tickets and the fastest connections? Today, in an era of advancing globalization, companies engaged in business travel face a completely different challenge: a sustainable approach to business travel. How can essential business trips be reconciled with caring for the planet? How can delegations be business-effective yet less environmentally burdensome?

ESG strategy and business travel organization

Effective implementation of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) goals in business travel requires systematic and long-term actions. The first step towards minimizing the carbon footprint for companies that regularly travel for business is to implement an appropriate travel policy tailored to individual needs. The criteria that are worth defining in a travel policy are primarily the choice of accommodation, preference for direct flights, use of public transport at the destination, and implementation of a system for monitoring and reporting carbon dioxide emissions. A company's travel policy should also include the selection of business partners who meet sustainable development standards.

Green Fares - sustainable travel with Lufthansa Group

Lufthansa Group Airlines’ Green Fares enable companies to travel more sustainably. They combine the reduction and compensation of CO₂ emissions associated with flights. The fares for flights within Europe and between Europe and North Africa are offered exclusively via the airlines’ websites and the NDC system. On intercontinental routes, they are available in all distribution channels.

Lufthansa Group Airlines has an ambitious goal: to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. These are not empty promises! Behind this are concrete actions, such as huge investments in fleet renewal, increasing the efficiency of flight operations, or the increasing use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Green Fares offer real support in these activities.

What exactly are “green tariffs”?

Green Fares fully compensate for the CO₂ emissions associated with your flights by:

• use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF),
• contribution to the Lufthansa Group's climate projects (investments in initiatives that actively contribute to climate protection worldwide).

It is worth knowing that the composition of the two components mentioned above (SAF and climate projects) varies depending on the length of the route. For flights within Europe and between Europe and North Africa, 20% of CO₂ emissions are reduced using SAF, and the remaining 80% are compensated by climate protection projects. On intercontinental routes, 10% of CO₂ emissions are reduced using SAF, and the remaining 90% are compensated for by projects. These are concrete, measurable steps towards reducing the carbon footprint. What are the other advantages of Green Fares? These include, among others:

• availability in all travel classes - Economy Green, Premium Green, Business Green, and First Green. This allows you to adapt to the needs of the company and its travel policy,
• changing your Green Fares ticket reservation without additional fees - it's comfort and convenience in the dynamic world of business, where plans can change in the blink of an eye.

In addition, when choosing Green Fares, traveling employees receive up to 20% more miles and qualification points. A nice bonus for making informed choices. Green Fares are available on Lufthansa Group flights operated by Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, SWISS, Air Dolomiti, Discover Airlines, and Edelweiss. Eurowings offers its sustainable fare called PlanetBlu.

The future of business travel management – with WorkTrips and responsible partners

At WorkTrips, we believe that technology simplifies life and is valuable. The worktrips.com platform allows you to make more informed choices about business travel. Already at the planning stage of a delegation, a traveling employee has access to information about emissions. Thanks to the worktrips.com system, organizing business trips becomes easier, helps companies achieve ambitious ESG goals, and makes responsible decisions that affect the future of the planet.

Through the worktrips.com platform, you can book flights offered by the Lufthansa Group. These are airlines that place great emphasis on sustainable activities. Thanks to this, your company's steps can be tailored to individual needs, which brings measurable benefits - both for the environment and the image of the organization. Arrange a free presentation of the worktrips.com system - our experts will help you develop solutions tailored to your company and effectively optimize your carbon footprint. Join the group of leaders who are changing the way you do business today!