Sustainable Airports

Sustainable airport news and features

NATS tops Europe climate list

NATS has received the highest score in the 2024 Financial Times Climate Leaders list, which marks companies’ progress in cutting GHG emissions  

TotalEnergies launches JFK solar project

French multinational TotalEnergies has begun construction of New York State's largest onsite solar generating and storage system

Rome airports tackle food waste

Aeroporti di Roma, part of the Mundys Group, has begun a collaboration with Too Good To Go, the world's largest marketplace for surplus food

SSP UK introduces plastic-free lids

F&B specialist SSP has removed plastic lids from its own-brand hot beverage cups, replacing them with a plastic-free alternative

Gatwick creates geospatial platform

London Gatwick Airport (LGW) has created a new geospatial platform using Esri’s GIS (Geographic Information System) technology

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Airport profile: Helsinki hub future-proofs

Tom Batchelor visits Helsinki Airport to see the results of an ambitious redevelopment, ten years in the making

Goldhofer: GSE goes green

Goldhofer supplies towbarless aircraft tractors and aircraft recovery systems. Customer feedback has led it to develop increasingly eco-friendly products

The New Terminal One (NTO) at JFK

Airports International spoke to Ferrovial Airports CEO Luke Bugeja about the company’s involvement in The New Terminal One (NTO) at JFK

Schiphol trials self-driving buses

Two electric self-driving Ohmio buses are following a fixed route and making stops at various locations on airside at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Aena to modernise Congonhas Airport

Aena, which operates 20% of Brazil's air traffic, will invest more than BRL 2bn (€370.8m) in the expansion of São Paulo's Congonhas Airport

Schiphol deploys new e-GPUs

Fuel generators at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol are being replaced by 30 new electric Ground Power Units (e-GPUs)

Heathrow trials lower-carbon concrete

Heathrow has begun exploring the viability of lower carbon concrete, which cuts emissions by 50% compared to a conventional concrete

Further electrification on cards for Schiphol

Royal Schiphol Group will collaborate with network operator Liander to create a new high-voltage substation at the Amsterdam hub

Arup and WWU release hydrogen report

New fuels and technologies will account for between one half and three-quarters of the reduction of carbon emissions in aviation by 2050

Malmö to invest in electric aviation

Airport operator Swedavia is to make Malmö Airport available as a test arena for Heart Aerospace’s ES-30 electric aircraft

Tallinn Airport to be carbon neutral by 2025   

Estonia’s Tallinn Airport is on course to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 – five years earlier than originally planned

Hyderabad moves to 100% green energy

GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) has moved to 100% sustainable green energy both on-campus and across its ecosystem

Hydrogen buses head to Gatwick

£30m has been invested in a pioneering hydrogen bus fleet and refuelling station for services in and around London Gatwick Airport

Vinci helps tackle greenhouse gases

Vinci Airports and France’s Rhône Chamber of Agriculture have launched the first local agricultural project with a ‘field crops’ low-carbon label

Honeywell upgrades APU offering

Honeywell has unveiled a new high-efficiency mode (HEM) upgrade for its 131-9B auxiliary power unit (APU) for Boeing 737 aircraft

Menzies reveals net-zero ambitions 

Menzies Aviation has announced its net-zero commitment for scope 1, 2, and 3 CO2e emissions across the company by 2045

Electric bus arrives at Aberdeen

A new fully electric bus has come into operation at Aberdeen International Airport, where it will transfer passengers to and from the car parks