Neste, SQUAKE enable businesses to opt for SAF in flight-booking systems

Photo: Neste Corp.

Neste and SQUAKE, a leading technology provider for powering carbon calculations and providing tangible compensation for all travel and logistics emissions, announced a strategic partnership Sept. 21 that enables businesses to purchase Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ through flight-booking systems using SQUAKE’s technology.

Travel companies using SQUAKE’s technology infrastructure can now provide their business customers an opportunity to opt for SAF, for instance during their booking process or by including SAF automatically in all bookings by the company.

Goodwings, a climate-focused travel-management platform that helps businesses reduce their emissions, is the first travel-management company to incorporate the option to purchase SAF in its booking platform.

Goodwings enables its global client network to mitigate their emissions and fly more sustainably using Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

With SQUAKE’s technology embedded in Goodwings’ travel platform, all processes from SAF-order creation and invoicing to document management are fully automated.

Neste, Goodwings and SQUAKE said they are “proud to empower businesses and travelers towards building a more sustainable travel industry” by accelerating use of SAF to significantly reduce emissions related to air travel.

“SAF has been around since 2008, and yet it only accounted for 0.1 percent of the world’s total jet-fuel consumption in 2022,” said Christian Møller-Holst, CEO and founder of Goodwings. “At Goodwings, we’re on a mission to change that. This strategic partnership brings together three businesses that share a deep commitment to changing the status quo of the travel industry. With Neste’s world-class SAF, SQUAKE’s sustainable travel and logistics, and Goodwings’ innovative B2B business model, we’re primed and ready to accelerate the green transition.”

Susanne Bouma, the head of partnerships and programs from Neste’s renewable aviation business unit, added, “Neste is working closely together with innovative and industry-leading partners such as SQUAKE and Goodwings to leverage the full potential of sustainable aviation fuel to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from air travel. We are proud that this partnership broadens the opportunities for business travelers to voluntarily reduce the carbon footprint of their air travel by purchasing our SAF and credibly reporting the emission reductions achieved.”

Philipp von Lamezan, CEO and co-founder of SQUAKE, said, “This partnership realizes the core purpose of our solution—connecting change and decision makers at scale to maximize and accelerate the sustainable transformation of the travel industry. Being trusted by such forward-thinking market leaders is yet another proof of the scalability and relevance of our solution.”