Footprint

Private Jets

The real carbon cost of a flight hour

A light jet burns about 1.3 to 2.2 tonnes of CO₂ per flight hour; a heavy jet 2.8 to 5.3. Durable removal for one light-jet hour costs roughly $740 to $1,250 at today's prices.

In development

Estimates and settlement are coming

We are rebuilding the calculator so every estimate is in kilograms of CO₂e, shown as a range with its sources, and settled at the supplier's price with a 15% Neutral fee on the receipt. Neutral is not taking payments yet.

What it costs

The footprint, plainly

~2 t per hour

Massive Carbon Footprint

Transport & Environment puts the average private jet at about 2 tonnes of CO₂ per flight hour.

Not counted

Contrails & Radiative Forcing

Contrails and other non-CO₂ effects add warming on top of the CO₂. Neutral's estimates count CO₂ only and say so.

5–14x

Fuel Inefficiency

Transport & Environment estimates private jets are 5 to 14 times more carbon-intensive per passenger than commercial flights.

Sources include Poore and Nemecek (Science, 2018), Gephart et al. (Nature, 2021), the IUCN Red List, ISSF and Transport & Environment. Full citations come with the methodology page.