Global – Ecological – Sustainable. The corporate environmental strategy is confronted with a new challenge with Fraport’s expansion. Successful approaches for the airport’s central environmental aspects – aircraft noise and climate protection – can only be developed and implemented within a sustainable strategic approach.

Aviation has become an essential element of the U.S. and the world’s economy in the last 60 years. It has made the world a neighbourhood and redefined the nature of opportunity. Aviation is a crucial driver of economic development in large areas of the world and supports the world’s largest industry: tourism, yet aviation’s success has produced concerns over its environmental impacts.

The effects of international aviation on the environment have been a concern  to ICAO for more than 40 years. The first ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for noise were adopted in 1971 and for aircraft engine emissions in 1981, long before the average air traveller was introduced to the concepts of “carbon footprint” and “offset-programmes”.