Case studies

Social development
Tackling harassment on airlines

While the instances of sexual harassment on airlines is very rare, in some ...

Environmental
Benefits of the Single European Sky

Following the liberalisation of the European air transport market in the 19...

Environmental
Birmingham Airport powered by solar energy

In an effort to reduce the amount of carbon emissions associated with their...

Environmental
San Francisco Airport sustainability drive

In response to the City and County of San Francisco’s greenhouse gas emissi...

Social development
Deaths during surgery can be reduced by applying a...

The safety credentials of the aviation industry are widely known, with an e...

Environmental
Varying height, speed across the Atlantic saves em...

Aircraft crossing the Atlantic can save between one and two per cent of the...

Environmental
Airports turn on the power of the sun

In October 2014 Rarotonga Airport in the Cook Islands is due to turn on its...

Environmental
Houston – we have an improvement

Some of the first people to benefit from the multi-billion dollar NextGen a...

Environmental
Towards green air traffic management with TOPFLIGH...

SESAR, a research and innovation programme which aims to modernise the enti...

Social development
Aircraft programmes boost Asian high-tech

Today’s commercial aircraft are a vital catalyst to high-tech skills develo...

Environmental
Airports save over 170,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions

During the fourth year of the Airport Carbon Accreditation scheme, 84 airpo...

Social development
New aircraft: more jobs and cleaner production

Every time a new aircraft programme is announced, the economic and industri...