2016 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $131 million
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD Travel
Enterprise software giant SAP's travel spending declined
amid new restrictions in 2015. Yet, U.S.-booked air spending reversed course
and increased in 2016, according to a BTN estimate. Nevertheless, travel and
the emissions it generates remains a key focus of SAP. In 2015, the company
began charging an internal fee on air travel in nine countries for emission
offsets. In 2016, the first full year of the program, that offset resulted in a
compensation of 90 kilotons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up from 35 kilotons
from the second half of 2015. SAP owns online booking and expense reporting
technology provider Concur and in 2016 acquired travel search aggregator
Hipmunk. SAP had 84,200 full-time-equivalent employees at the end of 2016, up
from 77,000 one year earlier. Revenue increased to €22.1 billion, up about 6
percent from 2015.