Edelweiss simplifies CO2 compensation

Edelweiss, Switzerland's leading leisure airline, is the first airline in Switzerland to integrate voluntary CO2 offsetting into its website's booking process. Effective immediately, Edelweiss guests can quickly and easily pay for their CO2 offsetting along with their ticket price.

In collaboration with the Swiss foundation myclimate, Edelweiss now offers its guests the opportunity to offset their flights during the booking process on the Edelweiss website. When a guest books a flight on flyedelweiss.com, myclimate calculates the resulting CO2 emissions and the amount required for CO2 offsetting during the booking process. The guest can voluntarily offset this amount with a single click. The offset amount is then paid along with the ticket price. This amount supports projects that reduce the resulting CO2 emissions by the same amount. All offset payments to myclimate are tax-deductible in Switzerland.

Innovation promotes passenger awareness
This new and innovative feature makes offsetting flights easier and raises awareness among Edelweiss customers about the possibility of carbon offsetting. Bernd Bauer, CEO of Edelweiss, said: "We do a lot to minimize the impact of our activities on the environment. For example, Edelweiss fully offsets the CO2 emissions generated by business travel. With our latest innovation, we also want to raise awareness of this important topic among our guests and make the step toward carbon offsetting as easy as possible for them."

Stephen Neff, CEO of myclimate: "The fact that Edelweiss is the first airline with us to offer carbon offsetting directly in the booking process is a breakthrough for more effective climate protection worldwide. The many interested and sensitized customers now have a simple way to take responsibility for their carbon emissions."

Support for climate protection projects
With the offsetting contributions from Edelweiss guests, myclimate supports climate protection projects in developing and emerging countries, as well as in Switzerland. These projects meet the highest quality standards and contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. In addition to reducing CO2 emissions, all myclimate projects also contribute to social, ecological, and economic development in the respective regions.