In addition, Microsoft and KLM intend to explore areas of cooperation that would further improve sustainability and reduce emissions associated with air travel. Our joint aim is to provide a blueprint that will engage other corporations to stimulate the demand for sustainable air travel solutions, and achieve ambitions to address their carbon footprint within their own supply chain.
KLM has joined forces with Microsoft to improve the sustainability of the air travel undertaken by the latter's employees. Microsoft will purchase an amount of sustainable air fuel equivalent to that used on all the flights taken by Microsoft workers between the US and the Netherlands on KLM and Delta Airlines under the scheme, which builds on KLM's Corporate BioFuel Program and aims to reduce emissions of CO2 into the air by up to 80%. The airline is also working closely with Dutch energy company Vattenfall in order to develop a new type of biofuel for its aircraft engines.