Lufthansa’s New Sustainability Platform Focuses on CO2 Neutral Fuels

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The Lufthansa Innovation Hub has launched the Compensaid, a sustainability platform which can be used by travelers to calculate and replace the fossil fuel of their flights with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

According to an announcement, Compensaid combines an innovative tracking tool for flights of all airlines worldwide with a sustainability platform that makes it possible to directly offset one’s personal CO₂ emissions. Travelers then receive a detailed evaluation of their entire travel history, which not only includes flight distance, time and destinations, but also shows the efficiency of the respective aircraft type, individual fuel consumption, and the associated CO₂ emissions.

“With Compensaid, we provide people with a tool that shows them the climate effects of their flights. This impact can be reduced significantly with the help of innovative technologies such as sustainable fuel,” said Gleb Tritus, Managing Director of the Lufthansa Innovation Hub.

Travelers have two options for CO₂ offsetting: For the first time, they can replace fossil aviation fuels one-to-one with SAF. The platform calculates the market-based surcharge in comparison to fossil kerosene. Travelers willing to pay this surcharge can use it to cover their individual kerosene consumption with the climateneutral fuel. The Lufthansa Group will continue to pay the basic rate for the kerosene. The SAF purchased as part of the offsetting process will be deployed on Lufthansa flights within a period of six months.

This is the first online platform of its kind to provide end customers with a transparent, quick, and effective way to offset their CO₂ consumption when flying using CO₂ neutral fuels.

As an alternative, travelers can also use Compensaid to support a reforestation project in Nicaragua and thus reduce CO₂ emissions over the long term.

Compensaid’s first partner is the Swiss climate protection foundation myclimate, a long-standing partner of the Lufthansa Group in the field of voluntary CO₂ offsetting.

Travelers can use the first test version of Compensaid at www.compensaid.de.