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Finnair is committed to reducing emissions and has set a science-based climate target to improve its emissions efficiency by 2033. Read more about our targets.

SAF stands for Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Made from renewable raw materials, it’s a scalable, ready-to-use solution for cutting air travel emissions. On Finnair for Business SAF Service, companies can start reducing the carbon footprint of flying by purchasing environmental attributes. The process enables companies to participate in SAF usage together with Finnair.

With Finnair for Business SAF Service, you can:

  • Reduce emissions in your business travels.
  • Work towards your targets related to reducing your emissions
.
  • Easily access and view the emission data
 associated with your work travel.
  • Reduce the carbon footprint of flying by contributing to the use of SAF.
  • Receive an audited SAF certificate and use it in reporting.
  • SAF Service is available for Finnair for Business members with an administrator account.

Start managing your emissions

Activate finnair for business SAF service

How can my organisation take part?

Activate SAF service for your company

You can start contributing through Finnair for Business SAF Service, operated by our partner Chooose.

View travel data and emissions

Emission data is calculated from
your company's business flights.

Purchase SAF environmental attributes

SAF environmental attributes can be used to reduce the carbon footprint of flying.

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How Finnair for Business SAF Service work


Activate Finnair for Business SAF Service

First, you need to activate the SAF Service through Finnair for Business portal. Once you’re set up, you can access all key features from the SAF Service dashboard, track your emissions, and get started to place your first SAF environmental attribute purchase. The SAF Service is provided by Chooose. Emission calculations related to flights purchased from Finnair will be available in the self service portal per Finnair for Business client identifier number. 

Invite your colleagues

Purchace SAF environmental attributes

You can begin managing your company's carbon emissions by purchasing SAF Environmental attributes. 

Complete the order to receive a SAF certificate

You can use the SAF certificate in your reporting. 

Track your impact

You can follow and keep track of your climate impact. Purchase history contains essential information about SAF environmental attributes. You can also download important information for reporting and marketing purposes. 

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), also known as alternative jet fuel, describes non-conventional jet fuels that are derived from renewable resources, known as feedstocks. Unlike traditional fossil-based jet fuels, SAF uses alternative feedstocks and is produced through various technologies, known as processing pathways.

SAF is a drop-in fuel substitution, meaning it can be blended with conventional jet fuel in current aircraft engines without modifications. This substitution offers an immediate solution for helping to reduce lifecycle emissions from aviation. SAF has the potential to provide a lifecycle emissions reduction of up to 80% compared to the traditional jet fuel it replaces. Scaling SAF together is important, as less than 1 % of jet fuel produced in 2024 was SAF. 

Read more about SAF

How is SAF produced?

SAF is produced using conversion technologies, which transform a range of feedstocks into fuel that can be used in airplanes. These conversion technologies are also referred to as processing pathways.

The most common processing pathway today is Hydrotreated Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA), which refines oils, waste, and fats into SAF using a hydrogen-infused process. Other pathways include Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) processes, which use catalytic chemical reactions.

As SAF development and adoption grows, feedstocks and production technologies will evolve. Future advancements could include eSAF, created by capturing atmospheric carbon and converting it into fuel.

How does SAF reduce emissions?

Today, all commercially produced SAF on the market leverages biogenic feedstocks, also known as biomass. Biogenic feedstocks are renewable organic materials from plants and animals – including forestry and agricultural residues, municipal solid waste, used cooking oil, etc.

In contrast, the production of conventional jet fuel requires the extraction of fossil fuel, resulting in a release of carbon that has been sequestered in the ground for millions of years. When burned, SAF and conventional jet fuel produce similar levels of emissions, but the emissions generated from SAF are already part of the carbon cycle (because they are made of biomass) and not extracted specifically for creating aviation fuel. This results in a reduction of emissions when using SAF compared to conventional jet fuel when considered over the lifecycle of the fuel.

Environmental attributes refer to the quantified sustainability characteristics or qualities of energy sources and other activities. These may include emissions reductions, carbon intensity, etc.

In the case of SAF, environmental attributes refer to the quantified emission reductions associated with the use of SAF as compared to the use of traditional jet fuel. Environmental attributes are tracked, purchased, and claimed separately from the physical SAF they are associated with.

This process of tracking, purchasing, and claiming environmental attributes separately is part of a “chain of custody” model called “book and claim.” Book and claim enables entities or individuals to support SAF by purchasing environmental attributes, and to make an associated claim to the environmental benefit the attributes represent – without being connected to the physical fuel supply chain (i.e., without being able to decide whether or not SAF is physically loaded into an exact flight that one is flying on).

What is chain of custody model

As defined by the ISO standard 22095:2020, a chain of custody model is a process by which inputs, outputs, and associated information are transferred, monitored, and controlled as they move through each step in the relevant supply chain. In regard to book and claim, ISO defines a book and claim chain of custody model as one in which the administrative record flow is not necessarily connected to the physical flow of material or product throughout the supply chain.

This model enables the environmental benefits of SAF to be tracked, purchased, and claimed separately from the physical fuel – which in turn enables individuals and entities that do not have control over the physical fuel supply chain to still support SAF and leverage associated emission reduction claims.

A greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) footprint, also informally referred to as a carbon footprint, is an estimation of all of the greenhouse gas emissions that result from activities, transactions, or operations. GHG emissions trap heat in the atmosphere and include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. The GHG Protocol distinguishes between three different categories of emissions:

Scope 1 emissions are from sources directly owned or operated by a company. These include emissions from manufacturing goods, fuel combustion by company-owned vehicles or aircraft, and fugitive emissions.

Scope 2 emissions are from energy produced elsewhere and purchased to directly operate a company’s business. These include emissions from the purchase of electricity, steam, heating, and cooling.

Scope 3 emissions are from activities associated with a company’s operations that are not directly owned by the company. In many industries, scope 3 emissions account for the largest portion of a company’s greenhouse gas footprint. These include emissions associated with a company’s supply chains, business travel, employee commuting, leased assets, transportation, distribution, etc.
 

In short:

When a company flies with Finnair, the emissions are counted as Scope 3 emissions for the company and as Scope 1 emissions for Finnair.

Finnair is using the actual average fuel consumption per route and the ISO 14083 factor of 3.64 to convert fuel to WTW (well to wake) CO2e emissions. WTW includes the full life cycle emissions for the fuel. Emissions are allocated to actual passengers and cargo using the IATA Recommended Practices 1726.

Chooose builds software solutions to enable the lower-carbon fuel value chain. It helps partners understand emissions, operate and scale SAF programs, and advance voluntary and compliance carbon initiatives. For more information, please visit chooose.today.

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