Charter & Fractional
Victor Says Airlines Should Offer Voluntary SAF Purchases
One in five customers booking charter flights through Victor now pays for sustainable aviation fuel to reduce the carbon footprint of their trips.
Neste sustainable aviation fuel truck
Energy group Neste produces sustainable aviation fuel and is partnered with charter booking platform Victor. (Image: Neste)

One in five customers booking private charger flights through Victor is voluntarily paying to reduce the carbon footprint of their trips through optional purchases of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company says. Under the booking platform’s "Pay Here, Use There" book-and-claim offering that launched a year ago with energy group Neste, jet passengers are now buying an average of £965 ($1,225) worth of SAF for each booking, equating to a carbon cut of 1.5 tonnes per flight.

The average percentage of fossil fuel voluntarily replaced by SAF for each Victor booking is 30 percent, and during the first 12 months of the program, a total of 269 bookings were made, representing total purchases of 132,400 kilograms (36,487 gallons) of SAF. Neste and Victor have called on airlines to adopt their approach, which they say provides travelers with a transparent way to voluntarily take responsibility for their own carbon emissions.