Sustainability at Flix

Our sustainability vision

Sustainability is a complex issue, and we are well aware of it. As a travel tech company, we acknowledge that transportation accounts for a large part of the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere (as shown by research). But what if more people decided to jump onboard long-distance collective modes of transport, and leave their cars at home? Based on data from our 2025 Avoided Emissions Methodology, this can lead to a large-scale impact – and at a convenient cost.

To make affordable, collective travel available for all is our purpose, and our Corporate Sustainability strategy builds around this vision. Affordable collective travel does not just mean fewer private vehicles on the road, but also higher connectivity across cities that are scarcely reachable by train or plane, easier access to mobility for people who are more price-sensitive, and economic footfall for off-the-beaten track territories – a potential that is intersectional and concrete, just as sustainability should be.

Our corporate sustainability commitment

Within our corporate strategy, sustainability has been embedded as strategic foundation. We commit to enhancing safe long-distance travel solutions that can provide viable alternatives to private cars, safeguarding high business ethics and integrity with robust governance (read more in our ESG report, p.55). Thus, we aim to drive positive change in the communities we operate in.

The four core pillars of Fllix's corporate sustainability are:

1. Travel

Travel is at an important turning point focusing on several environmental and social aspects that influence passenger choice. We encourage our customers to embrace collective mobility to reduce their personal carbon footprint already today and are committed to connecting people around the world with affordable travel options. Our service relies on a bus fleet owned and operated by our bus partners worldwide. In 2025, this network enabled our passengers to save an estimated 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ worldwide simply by choosing Flix over other means of travel – on a per person-km basis, a FlixBus coach in Europe, for example, emits five times less CO₂ than private cars and 10 times less CO₂ than planes, while performing almost as well as intercity trains (for more information on the methodology used for the calculation of the avoided emissions and other geographies, please consult Flix’s 2025 Avoided Emissions Methodology, available here). Together with our partners, we are shaping the future of the sector through innovation and partnerships across the industry. We aim to:

• Provide affordable and intermodal travel options to connect communities and regions, including rural and sparsely inhabited areas that suffer from lacking infrastructure. As of 2025, around 31% of our destinations worldwide had less than 20,000 inhabitants.
• Leverage our asset-light model to match our digital excellence with the operational excellence of our local bus partners, enabling the optimum experience for all at a convenient price.
• Build multi-stakeholder partnerships to progressively scale up alternative drive and fuel technologies in our partners' fleet and transform the long-distance coach market.

Click here to learn more on how we join forces with first-rank industry actors to enhance innovation in travel.

2. Planet

Flix has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a universally recognized scientific framework, establishing near-term targets to reduce our impact already by 2032*. In April 2024, the SBTi validated Flix’ near-term targets for emissions reduction, thus acknowledging that our strategy is in line with global climate goals (for more information on our progress, please refer to Flix’s ESG report, section 2.1.3, pp. 20-24). As concrete measures along this journey, we will: 

• Ensure high environmental standards for the FlixBus fleet. 
• Enable less CO₂-pollutant alternatives to diesel already today by testing diverse technologies and fuels while infrastructural and technological challenges make it difficult to scale up zero-emissions solutions in a way that is efficient and economically sustainable. We have already piloted various projects related to HVO, Bio-LNG, and BEV technologies, and aim to further incentivize fleet transformation across our bus partners’ fleet.

In addition to this, Flix already pays the climate contributions corresponding to all our employees' business travel emissions worldwide with atmosfair** (more information is available here).

Click here for more information on our climate strategy, our commitment to the SBTi, and initiatives implemented regarding climate protection.

3. People

In long-distance travel, safety is essential for all - our customers, employees and field workers. Therefore, all our bus partners are required to abide by high safety standards including measures that go beyond legal requirements, such as having a two-person crew on most nightlines.

While safety is an absolute priority, our business has more implications for people: indeed, one of the great challenges of our time is to promote an equal, diverse, and inclusive society, and especially as a global employer of thousands of people from different nationalities we must be able to foster equity and diversity in the workplace. Here is how we pursue these goals:

• Safeguard the safety of customers, employees and field workers (drivers, crew, bus host, Shop employees, and others) with an all-encompassing Safety Management System. Click here for an overview of the safety measures enforced.
• Ensure fair compensation and decent working conditions for employees and crews with a Code of Conduct for Business Partners.
• Embrace diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) in our company culture and values through a comprehensive DEI policy.
• Ensure high ethical standards across our supply chain, holding them accountable to a new policy in alignment with the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG).

Click here for more information on how we address the topics that are bound to have an impact on people, including our passengers, crew members and employees.

4. Strong Governance

We see strong governance at Flix and across the value chain as the foundation of our three strategic pillars Travel, People, and Planet. We established an ESG Steering Committee on Board level as the oversight body on sustainability performance. The committee is chaired by the CEO with senior leadership taking roles of business ambassadors across departments, which ensures the integration of sustainability goals and actions into business practices. Multiple governance and business ethics policies are developed, including policies on data protection, a People Code of Conduct, and a Business Partner Code of Conduct. We are strongly committed to:

• Complying with high business ethics standards and regulatory requirements.
• Upholding international human rights and labor laws.
• Enforcing responsible value chain management, integrated with high environmental and social standards.
• Safeguarding cybersecurity and data protection.

Transparent ESG Disclosures

Flix’s sustainability actions are further enhanced by its commitment to be transparent with its stakeholders regarding its ESG performance. Flix began its annual ESG reporting journey by publishing its first voluntary ESG report for the financial year 2022, in accordance with the GRI standards. In the same year, Flix also conducted an initial climate scenario analysis in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Since 2024, Flix aligns with the recommendations of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). As a UN Global Compact participant, Flix also submits its COP disclosures annually. Read more about Flix’s new ESRS-aligned impacts, risks and opportunities (IROs) in our 2025 ESG report available here.

*Flix commits to reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 54.6% by 2032 compared to a 2019 base year. Flix commits to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions by 40.9% per passenger kilometer within the same timeframe. For more information, please refer to Flix’s ESG report (p. 31).

**The accounting of the business travel emissions for the purpose of the offset is managed by atmosfair, adopting the VDR methodology. The carbon footprint of Flix follows the GHG Protocol methodology instead, in line with ESRS E1-6 requirements.