Byway launches first ever flight-free business travel planner

As OOOs start to wind down for the summer and 2023 planning looms on the horizon, businesses are thinking of ways they can hit their carbon targets and still allow for in-person meetings. Business travel accounts for 30% of the air travel carbon cost in Europe and if we can reduce corporate travel in Europe by half that’s the equivalent of 16 million polluting cars off the road.

This is why flight-free travel company Byway is launching a first-of-its-kind dynamic flight-free business planner, to help carbon-conscious companies and individuals not only get to that meeting, but enjoy the journey along the way.

Byway’s technology creates multi-stop trips personalised for the traveller and optimises for quality of experience en route. With wifi available on trains and many companies opting for hybrid remote working options, Byway work travel allows employees to clock in along the way and get some R&R on the way to and from their destination.

Whether you’re heading to a Q4 planning meeting in Munich, or stopping off in San Sebastian on the way home from a conference in Madrid to decompress with some relaxation on the beach, it’s a truly modern way to not only balance work and life, but company culture and carbon cost.

All trips include on-demand WhatApp support and a disruption refund guarantee.

“Our mission is to make slow travel mainstream, and that means every aspect of travel, including business. We’ve already had many businesses interested in rolling out our business offering and are thrilled to offer it more widely. The best way to reduce carbon emissions is to make low-carbon activities more enjoyable than carbon-intensive ones – slowing business travel down is climate-friendly and a decent employee perk. The Byway team often work like this: travelling into London overland for our meetings two days a month, working on the train and enjoying stop-offs on their way,” says Cat Jones, founder and CEO, Byway.