Air France-KLM, Airbus sign agreement enabling Airbus employees to contribute to SAF purchases

Photo: Air France-KLM Group

As part of an agreement that came into effect at the beginning of 2025, Airbus employees can now book “SAF Bundles” for business travel—fares that include a voluntary contribution towards the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), directly embedded in the plane ticket.

This innovative initiative allows Airbus business travelers to reduce the environmental impact of their trips.

The option is available directly through their booking tool. 

Following the success of a pilot project in 2023, Air France-KLM and Airbus are strengthening their collaboration with a dedicated SAF fare agreement.

Airbus has committed to purchasing SAF options for its employees’ business travel by joining Air France-KLM’s corporate SAF program for the third consecutive year, a program that facilitates the funding and purchase of SAF. 

Since the beginning of 2025, Air France-KLM has offered Airbus employees the opportunity to finance a percentage of SAF during the booking process on a selection of routes frequently used by the group, such as Toulouse-Paris and Toulouse-Montreal, where Airbus has a production facility.

This option, visible at the time of booking, aims to raise individual awareness among employees about efforts to reduce CO2 emissions related to business travel. 

Since joining the SAF program in November 2023, Airbus has reduced its CO2 emissions by more than 2,000 tons through the purchase of over 670 tons of SAF.

This approach offers employees a concrete opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of their business travel. 

“Reducing our CO2 emissions is a priority for our group,” said Sébastien Guyot, the executive vice president of global sales at Air France-KLM. “Sustainable aviation fuel is essential to achieving our ambitions, and the contribution of our corporate customers, like Airbus, is crucial.” 

Raphaël Duflos, Airbus’ vice president of corporate-services procurement, added, “We are proud to be pioneers in adopting the new ‘SAF Bundle’ offer following the rollout of the new distribution capability (NDC) with Air France. This demonstrates the importance of our strategic partnership with Air France on this key topic of decarbonizing business travel—a collaboration that has been evolving and expanding since 2023.” 

The Air France-KLM Group said it is fully committed to reducing CO2 emissions and is leveraging all available tools to achieve its decarbonization goals including fleet renewal, operational measures such as ecopiloting, intermodal passenger transport that combines air travel with low-carbon modes of transport like rail, and of course, the use of SAF.

The SAF selected by Air France-KLM provides at least a 65 percent reduction in CO2 emissions over the fuel’s full lifecycle compared to fossil fuel.

The group has also implemented a strict procurement policy, sourcing only SAF that does not compete with food production, does not contribute to deforestation and is not derived from palm oil.