Airlines & airports on alert as corporate travel seeks greenest providers for sustainability drive

Corporate travel procurement increasingly will be decided not just on traditional metrics, including price, airline network, schedule, flexibility, and loyalty rewards, but also on the stated sustainability strategies of airlines and the demonstrated outcomes of decarbonisation commitments.

To ensure that a company's sustainability objectives are also supported by the actions of travel suppliers, including airlines, it is critical that corporate procurement divisions have access to meaningful and detailed performance data from airlines to demonstrate not only the existence of sustainability strategies, but also demonstrated actions and evidence of outcomes.

A new Business Travel edition of the Airline Sustainability Benchmarking Report 2021, jointly prepared by CAPA - Centre for Aviation and Envest Global highlights some of the core elements of sustainable aviation, methods of quantifying individual airline sustainability credentials, and emissions.