Despite the recent economic troubles the celebrities’ favourite private aircraft charter broker, Flaps International Ltd of Upton in Worcestershire, has reported strong sales over the last year, including regular flights for such distinguished celebrities as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Sienna Miller and many Premiership footballers from a host of different clubs. Director Pete Lynch Williams attributes a significant proportion of this not just to the high standards of service provision but to Flaps’ long-standing relationship with the environmental company, Treeflights (www.treeflights.com) who plant trees from as far afield as Wales and Kenya to offset the carbon emissions of aircraft.
“Many of our clients have noted our long-established relationship with Treeflights and seem genuinely interested in the efforts we make to offset our carbon footprint” says Mr. Lynch Williams. “Unlike some of our rivals, we can point to the fact that we have been quietly providing support to this extremely worthy cause as a matter of principle over a significant period of time, rather than cynically hopping on the green bandwagon as so many have done lately”.
Ru Hartwell, owner of Treeflights agrees: “Flaps are certainly our oldest established aviation partner and in fact they are also our longest established partner company of any description as other concerns who pre-dated them have since dropped by the wayside. Since Treeflights was the first company in the world to plant trees specifically to offset aviation emissions, that must make Flaps International one of the first air charter companies in the world (if not the first) to start taking more responsibility for emissions in this way”.
Flaps International Ltd., (www.smarteraircharter.com) offer every enquirer the free option to plant a tree for each flight they take. If they wish, people can be provided with evidence of the location of their trees and can even name them after their children, for example. “When we first hooked up with Treeflights I named four trees after my wife and daughters” says Mr. Lynch Williams: “I only hope they don’t grow to be quite so expensive to keep!”.