Eco Travel - do you care about the carbon impact of your flights? If you could actually tell the difference, would you choose Greener options? Would you pay more to take a tesla or prius equivalent flight? If you usually fly with work, would your company support those choices?

No judgement space. Currently the options seem to be either Vegan (abstain completely) or Drive Through Surprise (no choice and not always sure after what it contained). Either way I'd love a range of perspectives.

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Client would be sensitive to price in my view, depending on the price difference. Similar? They wouldn’t care, 3x? They absolutely would care.

Personally I do not care, whatever minimizes my time in the air and maximizes it at home. As a consultant that travels weekly, if I can be home 2 hours earlier on a more carbon heavy flight, sign me up, I want to be home. I value that way more in current times.

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Thanks for taking the time to reply. That's really useful. 😊

I'm just trying to get from point A to point B man.

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Noone eco here?

Client is typically too price-sensitive to sponsor your environmental concerns, or their corporate values might not be aligned with your personal values; it’s also true that
-many airlines offset their emissions or let you purchase the option to offset your emissions (you can argue about how effective these are, as it depends a lot on which projects end up being sponsored, but it still goes a long way imo)
-some airlines (especially in Europe) consistently use biofuels (up to 70% less emissions) or let you purchase biofuel to cover your trip (obviously this won’t literally be in the tank of *your* plane, but will be used on a later flight)
-some companies also offset the emissions caused by their business flights (I work for one that does)
To integrate all the above, I chose to plant a tree for each hour spent in the air every year (it’s not a great metric, but I’ve seen it being used by travel bloggers savvier than me, so it’s probably good enough); other options include purchasing your own carbon credits (but do your due diligence on what the real impact is) and donating to other charities.

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