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A Fifa representative told BBC Sport: “The Fifa president routinely travels, together with relevant officials, on business and tournament-related matters and strives to visit member associations of Fifa whenever he can.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes travel is organised on commercial [including low-cost] airlines and sometimes it is on private charter, depending on which is more efficient and cost-effective under the circumstances.”<\/p>\n
We asked Fifa whether any of the flights to World Cup games were on commercial airlines, how many people travel on the Qatar Executive jet and whether Fifa offsets these emissions – but it has not responded.<\/p>\n
Freddie Daley, who works for the sport climate action network Cool Down, called Infantino’s apparent use of a private jet at the World Cup “symptomatic of Fifa’s failings on the environment and sustainability”.<\/p>\n
“The fact that Infantino’s choosing to use a private jet is just completely at odds with the level of leadership that we need to see at the top of Fifa on environmental issues,” says Daley, a researcher at Sussex University.<\/p>\n
Private jets have a “completely disproportionate impact”, says Denise Auclair, a sustainable travel expert at the European Federation for Transport and Environment. “They are five to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes and 50 times more than trains.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n