Budapest Airport recognizes green airport partners

Transport

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During an online award ceremony held on Tuesday, Budapest Airport honored airport partners who made significant contributions to the sustainability of the airport and of aviation over the past year, despite the negative impacts of the global pandemic on aviation.

The airport recognized the efforts of its partners in three categories this year.

The Greenairport airline partner of the year award went to Wizz Air. The company is making progress towards becoming the greenest airline in Europe, facilitated primarily by its young aircraft fleet and the introduction of new, fuel-efficient procedures. With the modification of its landing and takeoff techniques, the carrier was able to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 500 tons a year at Budapest Airport alone. Since November 2020, Wizz Air’s passengers are also able to contribute to making aviation more sustainable; they can offset the harmful emissions of their flights in the airline’s compensation program. This year, supported by Budapest Airport, the company is launching a pilot project to improve the handling of onboard waste.

In the landside services category, Budapest Airport’s contracted taxi company, the Greenairport award was handed to Főtaxi. As part of its “Greenway” program, the company expanded its fleet of electric vehicles, installed rapid chargers, and introduced paperless payment for passengers in 2020. It is also continuing its tree-planting scheme, whereby every year it plants as many trees as it has taxis operating in Budapest.

This year’s Greenairport award was presented in the tenant category to HungaroControl, for working out plans for carbon-neutral events. Although face-to-face meetings are currently not possible, the company already put its detailed sustainability plans into practice before the pandemic, during its annual partner meeting. HungaroControl calculated all environmental burdens in connection with the event, from guest travel to the production of the food served. It then reduced carbon dioxide emissions as far as possible, and offset the remaining emissions with a tree-planting program, setting a positive example for other event organizers.

“I am convinced that the future belongs to companies who operate responsibly from a sustainability perspective, and for whom sustainability is not just about words, but concrete actions,” said Chris Dinsdale, CEO of Budapest Airport at the ceremony. "We know there is strength in unity and we believe that partnership is always stronger than individual action. Joint efforts are the only way to pass on a healthy world to the next generations, and we take our role in this goal very seriously. We thank all of our Greenairport partners for their sustainability initiatives and congratulate the winners on their outstanding performances.”

The airport operator established the Greenairport program in 2015, as part of which it works together with partners, companies and authorities operating at the airport on sustainability plans for Ferenc Liszt International Airport. The scheme focuses primarily on climate protection. The most important objective of the program is to reduce the airport’s carbon dioxide emissions, which the company achieves by reducing energy consumption, enabling the use of renewable energy, developing electric mobility, promoting, amongst other topics, reduced water use, eliminating single-use plastics, encouraging selective waste collection and waste reduction.

Budapest Airport also joined the international ACI Net Zero 2050 initiative, whereby it committed to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the airport to zero by 2050 at the latest. Budapest Airport has been carbon neutral since 2018, through the use of carbon credits, but the company is working with its partners to reduce the harmful emissions of the airport to zero by no later than 2050, a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal notes.

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