Which scope does a chartered flight fall in?

If you charter an aircraft with the operator's crew, the operator burns the fuel, so it is your Scope 3 Category 6. If your company owns or leases and operates the aircraft, the fuel is your Scope 1. Ask the operator for fuel burned; jet fuel is about 3.15 kg CO2 per kg.

Best data

• Fuel burned on your flights, from the operator.
• If not available, block hours times the aircraft's typical burn rate.
• Empty positioning legs flown for you count too.

Helicopters

The same rule applies: whoever operates the aircraft has the Scope 1.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• Business travel flights
• Radiative forcing in flights

Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2: Energy

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.