Choose the route and the aircraft in your charter quote. Passenger numbers do not change the estimated emissions from the aircraft, but we can divide the result between the people travelling.
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Your estimated private jet emissions
Emissions breakdown
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We’ll email you with details of what your payment supports. No certificate is issued.
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This product relies on data obtained from the SET made available by EUROCONTROL. All rights reserved.
Travelling on a scheduled airline instead?
Use our Flight Carbon Calculator for scheduled airline travel. That calculator works from the route and cabin class. This one estimates the emissions from the whole private aircraft type being chartered.
What does this private jet emissions estimate include?
The starting point is the distance between the two airports and the aircraft type you select.
EUROCONTROL's Small Emitters Tool estimates the fuel an aircraft of that type would use over that journey. We then apply the current UK Government greenhouse gas conversion factors.
A real flight will not reproduce that number exactly. Routing on the day, weather, payload, holding, altitude and the way the aircraft is flown all affect fuel consumption. If you need the fuel actually used by a particular charter, the operator's records are the better source.
A return journey is calculated as two sectors because fuel consumption does not increase in a straight line with distance.
Empty positioning flights are not included. If the aircraft flies empty from another airport to collect you, or repositions after dropping you off, those emissions sit outside the journey entered here.
Which private jets does the calculator cover?
The aircraft selector uses the business jet and business turboprop types available through the EUROCONTROL Small Emitters Tool.
That includes aircraft across the private aviation market, from smaller Citation, Phenom and similar jets through to larger Gulfstream, Global and Falcon types where the required SET data is available.
We don't rank aircraft or use this calculator to compare manufacturers or aircraft types. The EUROCONTROL data licence does not permit that use.
If the aircraft in your charter quote isn't listed, send us the type designator and we can check whether the underlying data is available.
Tell us the type designator. If SET holds it, we can add it.
How the private jet emissions calculation works
- 01Great-circle distance between the two airports you entered
- 02Fuel consumption for that aircraft type over that journey, from the EUROCONTROL Small Emitters Tool
- 03Fuel converted using the 2026 UK Government factors for aviation turbine fuel
- 04Wider effects at altitude shown separately, only if you ask for them
Direct emissions from burning the fuel and emissions associated with producing the fuel are kept identifiable rather than being buried inside one unexplained number. If you choose to include the wider climate effects of aviation at altitude, those appear separately as well.
The whole-aircraft result comes first because that is the physical journey being estimated. Dividing it between two, four or eight passengers is useful for allocating the impact, but it doesn't alter what the aircraft emitted.
Why an estimate is sometimes the right answer
A route and an aircraft model are precise inputs, which can make the resulting number look more precise than it really is.
Without the operator's technical log or fuel record, we do not know exactly what happened on the day.
That is why the calculator identifies the source of the fuel estimate and keeps actual operational factors outside the result rather than quietly making assumptions about them.
Those factors are taxi time, how full the aircraft is, the wind, the route air traffic control actually gives you, and how the cabin is fitted out. The model does not know any of them. Across many flights the estimates hold up well. On a single flight the difference can be significant, and EUROCONTROL says so themselves.
If the operator can supply actual fuel data, use that for a record of the flight itself.
Funding climate action after a private jet charter
Once you know the estimated emissions, you can choose to fund climate action in response to them.
C Level works with independently certified, community-led projects under the Plan Vivo Standard. Project funding supports work on the ground, including ecosystem restoration and community livelihoods.
It does not make the private jet flight carbon neutral. The emissions from the aircraft remain emissions from the aircraft.
Where climate funding is attached to a calculation, the record can identify the journey, aircraft type, calculation method and the climate action funded.
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What happens when you fund a journey
You pay on Stripe's own page, so no card details reach C Level. Stripe emails you a receipt. The money funds work on the ground in the projects above.
We then email you to confirm what your funding supports. No certificate is issued from this page. If you need the funding recorded a particular way for your own reporting, tell us and we will set it out for you properly.
The amount to fund appears with the estimate. Or email us if you charter often and want this set up across a programme.
Private jet emissions and company reporting
A private jet charter used for work may form part of a company's Scope 3 business-travel emissions.
If you are using the result for company reporting, retain the gross journey emissions. Funding a carbon project afterwards does not remove those emissions from the journey or automatically reduce the company's reported footprint.
For a single charter, the calculator gives you the aircraft type, route and calculation basis.
If you have dozens or hundreds of private aviation journeys, processing them individually becomes rather pointless. C Level can apply a consistent method across executive travel data and provide the calculation record your sustainability or finance team needs.
Talk to C Level about private jet emissions reportingFor private jet charter brokers and operators
If you quote private jet charters, the same calculation can be used before or after the flight rather than asking the client to find a generic aviation calculator themselves.
C Level can configure the calculator around the aircraft types you actually operate or broker, with the calculation basis retained for each estimate.
That could sit alongside a charter quote, booking confirmation or post-flight report. For corporate clients, it also creates a consistent record of how executive-travel emissions were calculated.
If you are handling a larger volume of private aviation, talk to us before putting individual journeys through the public calculator one by one.
Talk to us about private jet emissions for your chartersPrivate jet emissions calculator FAQs
It depends heavily on the aircraft and journey, which is why this calculator asks for both.
A short sector in a small business jet and a long journey in an ultra-long-range aircraft should not be reduced to the same generic "private jet emissions per hour" figure.
For the charter itself, yes. It estimates greenhouse gas emissions associated with the aircraft and journey you enter.
It does not attempt to calculate the wider lifetime footprint of owning the aircraft, manufacturing it, maintaining it or running the airports.
It reduces the emissions allocated per passenger, not the estimated emissions from the aircraft.
If a jet produces three tonnes of emissions on a journey, carrying six passengers rather than one does not make the aircraft produce one-sixth as much. It changes how that three tonnes is divided between the people aboard.
No. The calculator covers the route you enter.
If an aircraft has to reposition empty before collecting you or after the charter, those are additional flights. Ask the operator for the positioning details if you need a fuller account of the journey associated with the charter.
For estimating an aircraft type over a route, the underlying EUROCONTROL model gives a far better basis than applying one generic fuel-per-hour assumption to every private jet.
It is still an estimate. If you need the emissions from the actual flight that took place, ask the operator for the fuel record.
Because the fuel data comes from the EUROCONTROL Small Emitters Tool and its licence restricts its use for comparisons between aircraft types, manufacturers and operators.
The calculator therefore answers "What are the estimated emissions from this charter?", not "Which private jet is greener?"
The Flight Carbon Calculator is designed for passengers travelling on scheduled commercial flights and uses route and cabin class.
The Private Jet Emissions Calculator estimates the whole-aircraft emissions of a specific private jet type over the route being chartered. Passenger count is used afterwards to show an allocation per person.
Estimate your private jet emissions
Enter the route and aircraft type to calculate the estimated emissions from your charter.
For company travel programmes, charter brokers or operators handling multiple journeys, talk to C Level about using the same methodology across your private aviation data.
Calculate private jet emissionsData source and terms of use
This product relies on data obtained from the SET made available by EUROCONTROL. All rights reserved.
Using this calculator. The fuel figures come from the EUROCONTROL Small Emitters Tool and remain EUROCONTROL's property. By using this page you agree not to try to work out the tool's underlying data, models or workings, and not to use anything here to compare aircraft types, manufacturers or operators. The tool is not to be used for flight operational purposes.
Figures are given as they stand, with no warranty of any kind, and you rely on them at your own risk. The emission factors are the UK Government's greenhouse gas conversion factors for 2026.