Delta Air Lines is encouraging its customers to go green by giving some green to the airline’s carbon offset program and committing to match customer contributions up to $10,000. Through Delta’s partnership with The Conservation Fund, a leading environmental nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting land and water resources, customers can contribute toward the offset of the carbon emissions associated with air travel at delta.com where customers also save some green by booking Delta’s lowest available fares.

To celebrate the program’s one year anniversary, Delta’s Force for Global Good is matching all customer donations up to $10,000 during the month of April to support the planting of an additional 1,800 trees. Beginning this month, Delta customers can also calculate the emissions from airline miles along with their personal carbon footprint online via the Go Zero Carbon Calculator. In addition, on Earth Day 2008, April 22, Delta’s web site, delta.com will go green to continue to raise environmental awareness worldwide.

Customers who purchase a ticket at delta.com can choose to contribute $5.50 for domestic roundtrip flights and/or $11 for international roundtrip flights. Every penny of Delta’s customer’s donations goes directly to The Conservation Fund’s Go ZeroSM program to help plant trees and restore habitat for wildlife. For every $5.50 contributed, the Fund will plant one tree in a protected park or national wildlife refuge.

In June 2007, Delta became the first U.S. airline to provide customers with the opportunity to help offset carbon emissions associated with air travel through a donation to The Conservation Fund. To kick off the initiative, Delta made a donation on behalf of every customer who flew a Delta mainline or Delta Shuttle flight on Earth Day, April 22, 2007 and planted a tree for each of the airline’s 47,000 employees. In October 2007 the employees’ trees were planted at Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge along the Texas Gulf Coast. This spring trees are being planted on behalf of Delta’s passengers at Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas. The newly planted forests help absorb carbon dioxide, filter water, restore wildlife habitat and enhance public recreation areas.

Delta’s carbon offset program is one of the airline’s many efforts to effect positive environmental change.