AirPlus wins CSR award for the carbon offset feature of its corporate travel accounting service
Mon 11 Feb 2008 - AirPlus International has won the Corporate Social Responsibility category at last week’s Business Travel Show 2008 Innovation Awards for the carbon offset feature of its AirPlus Company Account, which allows corporations an automated and fully integrated calculation of their climate protection contributions for business flights.
The AirPlus Company Account is a Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) Card and is accepted by nearly every airline around the world as a preferred form of payment for the purchase of flight tickets.
It is intended exclusively for business travellers who represent the airlines’ most important customers and can be used by individual travellers, corporate travel departments and travel agencies. Fifteen airlines actively issue UATP cards for their preferred corporate customers. AirPlus settles more than 50% of all UATP volume worldwide.
The carbon offset feature allows clients to automatically offset all their flights purchased via the Company Account. This is done through a donation, based on the actual CO2 emissions, as calculated by the carbon offset organization selected by the client. The donation is automatically charged to the client and received by their chosen offset organization and appears on the client's AirPlus invoice alongside the flight transaction.
