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Sustain-air-bility®

A facilitated net-zero aviation decision workshop

Put your aviation team inside the 2050 trade-offs.

Give sustainability, operations, commercial, finance, and learning teams one shared challenge: get every airline to net zero by 2050 while pressure builds, incentives diverge, and every shortcut affects the table.

1-4players per table
4.5hour workshop
2050deadline
Browserno install

The goal

Get every airline to net zero by 2050. Miss one, and everyone loses.

Everyone wins only if every airline reaches net zero by 2050. That one rule gives the game its bite. You are never just improving your own position. You are deciding whether your progress helps the group survive or makes the final stretch worse.

That is why new players get it fast. The objective is clear, the stakes are public, and the tension comes from human choices, not specialist knowledge.

What the goal creates

One deadline. Four airlines. Zero room for lazy decisions.

1-4
players chasing one outcome
2050
deadline nobody can ignore
5
decks that keep changing the board
1
group result at the end

How to win

Winning means reading the room better than the rest of the table.

Sustain-air-bility board overviewEveryone can see whose turn might save or wreck the planThe countdown keeps the whole table honestEvery deck adds a new reason to talk, panic, or bargain

The board keeps the danger visible, so good players can act early, trade smartly, and stop problems becoming disasters.

01

Read the table before you chase your own plan

Strong players keep one eye on their airline and one eye on everybody else. You win more often when you spot who is falling behind before the whole room starts panicking.

02

Use your best move at the right moment

Not every powerful move is smart right now. The best turns come from timing, restraint, and knowing when a short-term gain will wreck the later game.

03

Make deals before help becomes expensive

Negotiation is easier before someone is desperate. If you wait until the table is already on fire, every favour costs more and every promise feels suspicious.

04

Protect the shared win, not just your own board

The players who do best are the ones who know when to be selfish and when to keep the whole system alive. That balance is where the endgame is decided.

For aviation teams

A practical pilot workshop for the people making decisions across the system.

Give different functions one shared problem

Sustainability, operations, commercial, finance, and learning teams can explore the same deadline from different positions, then compare what shaped their decisions.

Turn abstract strategy into a conversation

The workshop gives facilitators concrete moments to discuss timing, incentives, collaboration, and the cost of waiting without presenting the game as a prediction of real-world outcomes.

Start with a focused pilot

Run one browser-based session for a small team, gather structured feedback, and decide whether a wider facilitated programme fits your organisation.

For educators and facilitators

A memorable way to open discussion about shared systems, incentives, and climate decisions.

  • Why a shared objective gets harder when everyone is protecting their own position
  • How visible deadlines change the way people negotiate, cooperate, and panic
  • Why the best group decisions usually happen before the crisis feels obvious

Sustain-air-bility lands because it turns a big idea into something social, readable, and memorable. Players leave with a better feel for trade-offs, timing, and shared responsibility because they just lived through them together.

Sustain-air-bility landing screenClear first moveVisible countdownFast group tension

See what your team does when every airline has to make it.

Start with a focused pilot workshop, use the debrief to surface the decisions that mattered, and decide whether Sustain-air-bility® belongs in your wider sustainability or learning programme.