Environmental Issues
Environmental Policy | Aircaft Noise | Approach, Departure & Circuits | Future Development | Airport Surface Access | Carbon Balance Flights | Flying Matters | Airline Responsibility
Environmental Policy
The Airport's Environmental Policy sets out the commitment to operating in a manner that takes responsibility for environmental aspects and impacts through the development and improvement of management systems.
Aircaft Noise
All local noise related incidents are monitored by Airfield Operations and their document Managing Aircraft Noise has answers to frequently asked questions.
Exeter International Airport's Consultative Committee also meets regularly
to discuss environmental and noise issues. It works to Department for
Transport Guidelines for Airport Consultative Committees
and has representatives from Local Parish, District and City Councils. Issues for consideration should be addressed to:
Exeter International Airport Consultative Committee
The Council Offices
Knowle
SIDMOUTH
EX10 8HL
The minutes of the meetings are posted at Airport Consultative Committee on the About Us page.
General complaints about aviation environmental impact or requests for advice and information about particular types of aircraft activity, including the operation of UK airspace, should be addressed to the Civil Aviation Authority.
Approach, Departure & Circuits
During landing, take off and when undertaking training or other manoeuvrescraft, aircraft use the established rourte for Approach, Departure and Circuits.
Future Development
The airport's future development is detailed in the Airport Master Plan.
Airport Surface Access
In accordance with the DfT directive, the airport hosts Airport Transport Forums to discuss Exeter International Airport's Airport Surface Access Strategy (ASAS). See the Administration page's Airport Surface Access.
Carbon Balance Flights
Exeter International Airport offers passengers the opportunity of using a CO2 calculator. Following the calculation, passengers are invited to contribute to co2balance.com schemes that will minimise the effect of their flight's carbon emissions. The South West company will invest funds in sequestration or energy efficiency projects that absorb or prevent the release of the CO2 equivalent to the Carbon Footprint of the flight.
Flying Matters
FlyingMatters represents a broad coalition of all those interested in supporting sustainable growth in aviation including the business community, trade
unions, tourism bodies, farmers in the developing world and a wide
range of air transport users, in addition to the aviation industry
(airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers and air traffic control),
- FlyingMatters want to ensure that within the public debate proper account is taken of the economic and social benefits of aviation.
- FlyingMatters seeks to contribute to a balanced and informed debate on aviation's contribution to climate change.
- FlyingMatters promote the technological progress made and being made to ensure flying is as clean and quiet as possible both today and in the future.
- FlyingMatters aim to demonstrate that the environmental costs of aviation can and are being addressed effectively, efficiently and fairly.
- FlyingMatters believe that in this way those who rely on and value the opportunities to do business in the global economy, to travel on holiday, or to simply see friends and relatives in other parts of the world, can be reassured that they can fly sustainably.
Airline Responsibility
Environmental
performance has always been high on the aviation industry's agenda and
IATA, the International Air Transport Association with its membership
of airlines, seeks to balance social, economic and Environmental Objectives in order to secure the well-being of present and future enerations. IATA has information on Climate Change, Fuel Efficiency, Local Air Quality and Sustainability.
Levels have come down and the "noise footprint" of a modern jet
aircraft is less than 15% of that of the aircraft it replaces. Fuel Efficiency
is very important and today's newest aircraft often match the energy
consumption of modern cars and in some cases, depending on speed and
distance, even of high speed trains.
Flybe, the largest operator at Exeter International Airport, has services that save 17.5 million car miles every year. Flybe's Eco Aircraft Labelling Scheme provides passengers with a user-friendly breakdown of the fuel consumption, carbon emissions and noise patterns of the aircraft type to be used on their journey. The Sustanable Aviation document Flybe Myths & Realities seeks to put the record straight on matters of the environmental impact and compliments those of IATA in the document Aviation and the Environment.