2018 U.S.-Booked Air
Volume: $105 million
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD
Enterprise software giant SAP, which owns online booking and
expense reporting technology provider Concur, for the past few years internally
has charged a fee on booked flights to invest in carbon credits to offset the
carbon emissions generated by business travel. The company offset 170,000
metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018, compared with 135,000 in
2017. SAP also has invested in remote conferencing technologies as a travel
alternative. The company’s revenue increased more than 5 percent in 2018 to
24.7 billion euros. SAP had 96,500 employees at the end of 2018, up from 88,400
one year earlier. In January 2019, SAP announced a restructuring that could cost
as much as 950 million euros and included the loss of 4,400 jobs, but the
company still expects to surpass 100,000 employees in 2019.