Article: How to Offset Your Carbon Emissions for Qantas & Virgin Flights

[AFF Editor]

How to Offset Your Carbon Emissions for Qantas & Virgin Flights is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

How to Offset Your Carbon Emissions for Qantas & Virgin Flights

When you book a Qantas or Virgin Australia flight, you have the option to pay a small additional fee to offset your carbon emissions.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

You can leave a comment or discuss this topic below.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Informative article thanks.
Question please:
If I book a flight in March for July and my anniversary is 30 June, when do I get the green leaf - when I book or when I fly?

 

[roman91]

How to Offset Your Carbon Emissions for Qantas & Virgin Flights is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

How to Offset Your Carbon Emissions for Qantas & Virgin Flights

When you book a Qantas or Virgin Australia flight, you have the option to pay a small additional fee to offset your carbon emissions.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

You can leave a comment or discuss this topic below.

Hi all,
Please be mindful that Qantas is prescribed by NGERS (the National Energy Guarantee scheme) to abide by the Safeguard Mechanism. What this means is that as a large (large polluter) company, Qantas (and subsidiary brands) are required to limit their emissions to a set baseline. Given Qantas mostly produce toxic and large volumes of Scope 1 emissions (ie tailpipe emissions), they are buying offsets anyway, as mandated by the Safeguard Mechanism.
I'm all for purchasing offsets - flying is one of the worst things we can do for the environment, just remember that investigation is required to understand where our money actually goes when purchasing offsets for Safeguard Mechanism companies. I'm looking into this at the moment and can provide more info if people are interested.

 

[John in Melbourne]

I recently booked a QF flight and offset it, but when I came to the payment section, I couldn't use PayPal, BPAY, etc because I had paid the offset. Instead, the only choice was to enter my card details. No big deal, but why on earth would Qantas do that?

 

[Forg]

Carbon offset schemes are like plastic recycling in Australia ... I keep participating with the glimmer of faint hope that what’s claimed as being done is actually being done, when I know full-well that it’s actually pointless & the people implementing the schemes are kinda failing to fill the bottles with what it says on the label.