[Greenbuilding] Carbon offset - pay to airline while buying tickets

Jason Woodall jasonwoodall at phreaker.net
Mon Feb 18 13:10:09 CST 2008


Air Canada is another that allows you to purchase right off the website.

Much cheaper than I expected, and they use ZeroFootprint ($6.40 for a 3 
hr flight).

	

sanjay jain wrote:
> I was surprised to find British Airways allow you to buy Carbon offset while booking a ticket. I don't know if other do too.
> 
> I purchased the offset, even though it was via a large finance institution (we all know how green and caring they are!), my logic being that it's good to let airlines know that people want to do this.
> 
> Although one wonders at the logic of all this, doesn't it depend on how the money used to pay the offset was "earned"?
> 
> ~sanjay



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