Flexjet Achieves Carbon-Neutral Flight Operations Through Collaboration with 4AIR

Flexjet LLC, a global leader in fractional private jet travel, reported today that it has reached carbon-neutral flight operations as a result of its collaboration with 4AIR, the first and only rating system focusing on holistic sustainability in private aviation. Flexjet has been buying credits to offset carbon emissions from all flights booked by its US-based Owners since January 2021. Flexjet's checked credits will finance carbon offset projects that will negate the effect of emissions generated by its aircraft at no extra cost to its owners, due to 4AIR's expertise and assistance.

Although some big private aviation companies have put the financial pressure of carbon offsets on their clients, Flexjet is shouldering the burden. In reality, Flexjet started offsetting 100% of CO2 emissions from all of its US-based aircraft for its Owners in January, including emissions from the company's internal airline, Project Lift, which transports Flexjet pilots to their flight assignments.

This offset program is provided at no extra cost to Flexjet owners. By the end of 2021, the company expects to have offset 400,000 metric tonnes of carbon. This action has an immediate impact on the environment, not in a matter of decades.

And, because Flexjet sees sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as a crucial piece of the global warming puzzle, the organization is collaborating with 4AIR to provide Owners with the option of upgrading their sustainability commitment by using SAF for flights where it is available.

Flexjet has taken immediate measures to reduce Owners' environmental impact while allowing them to fund the technology of tomorrow's sustainability by offsetting all flights and providing SAF.

4AIR's industry-leading validated offsets support a half-dozen programs, including solar, wind, and forestry efforts. The Cookstove Project in Rwanda, for example, provides fuel-efficient cookstoves to families in rural Rwandan communities who cook over open fires within their homes. By using these stoves instead of open fires, households can decrease the amount of wood and coal burned, the amount of time they may spend gathering the fuel (in some cases hours each day), the toxic air pollution emitted into their homes, and the emission of carbon dioxide – a leading cause of global warming.

Flexjet chose 4AIR to handle carbon credit offsets, standards, verification, validation, and retirement by the most recognized and internationally leading organizations that issue and register credits.

The 4AIR rating system provides benchmarks that are compliant with international criteria and compatible with industrywide carbon reduction goals. The system has several stages, each with specific, science-based goals, independently verified results, and increasingly greater impacts on sustainability. Flexjet has pledged to the 4AIR Bronze standard for 2021, which means that all of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be offset with verified carbon offset credits.

About Flexjet
In 1995, Flexjet entered the fractional jet ownership market for the first time. Flexjet has fractional jet ownership as well as leasing. Flexjet's fractional aircraft program is the first in the world to be recognized as fulfilling the Air Charter Safety Foundation's Industry Audit Standard, as well as the first and only organization to receive 22 FAA Diamond Awards for Excellence, an ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating, and IS-BAO Level 2 compliance. Flexjet's fractional service offers an exclusive selection of commercial jets, some of which are among the youngest in the fractional jet industry, with an average age of about six years. Flexjet launched Red Label by Flexjet in 2015, which includes the industry's youngest fleet, flight crews devoted to a single aircraft, and the LXi Cabin Collection of interiors.

About 4AIR
4AIR is an industry leader, providing solutions for development that go beyond simple carbon neutrality. Its industry-first policy aims to resolve all types of climate impacts and offers a simplified and verifiable path for private aviation industry members to pursue successful aircraft emissions counteraction and reduction.

The 4AIR framework has four tiers, each with specific, science-based goals, independently verified results, and increasingly greater impacts on sustainability, making it simple for private aviation users to achieve sustainability through access to carbon markets, the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, support for new technologies, and other strategies.