environmental flight path - cardiff airport

Environmental flight path

October 2019

October 2019

November 2019

January 2020

July 2020

Q1 2020/21

Q4 2020/21

Our Airport will be powered entirely by renewable and

clean energy sources

Commit to the Healthy Travel

Charter to promote healthy travel habits

for our team and customers

Introduce new electric vehicle charge points across our car

parks

Renew recycling

operations across the

Airport

November 2019

Install smart meters to

closely monitor energy use

Update Cardiff Airport’s Climate

Change Adaptation Report

Continuereduce plastic consumption

with our partners

Commission and install a

Solar PV farm on the Airport

site

Our journey to become a carbon neutral airport

What we’ve achieved

Reduced carbon

emissions by 53% over 8

years

Electricity consumption reduced by

7% over one year

Natural gas consumption

reduced by 29% over one year

Introduced electric

vehicles to our operations

Discontinued single use plastic

straws across our food and drink outlets

Installed complimentary

water refill fountains

across the site

Replaced end of life equipment with

modern, more energy efficient

technology

Replaced light fittings with

LED and energy efficient solutions

Restricted ground running

of engines during

anti-social hours

Encouraging twin engine

aircraft to taxi with one engine

Use continuous descent operations

for aircraft on approach,

promoting noise abatement

Achieved BS 8555:2003

Seren Standard accreditation 4 years in a row