29 November 2016
Gloucestershire Airport has won Best General Aviation Airport for the second year running in the annual Airport Operators Association awards. A full list of award winners can be found here
At the same event, held in London last week, the Airport Operators Association (AOA) has its annual conference where it announced the date for the 2017 Airport Safety Week: 8-14 May 2017.
During the inaugural UK Airports Safety Week, held from 19-25 September 2016, airports across the country demonstrated their commitment to a safety culture by participating enthusiastically in the AOA- and CAA-sponsored event.
Running over any of this would spoil your day! FoD found in a debris search during 2016’s safety week.
AOA Operations & Safety Director Roger Koukkoullis described the event as a resounding success story which had exceeded expectations, with more 3,000 people taking part in events across the UK’s airports.
Key to success was the involvement of the broadest range of people from airport staff across the organisation to airlines, air traffic controllers, ground handling service providers, emergency services, the Civil Aviation Authority, local schools and members of the public.
The diverse range of activities involved encompassed practising resuscitation, runway inspections on foot, weighing foreign object debris, awareness of drink and drugs and discharging water from fire trucks.
Among many examples, Aberdeen put the focus on the environmental impact of spillages, Cardiff used a simulator to show how to land an aircraft, Liverpool examined the hazards of refuelling aircraft, Newcastle featured a terminal awareness programme on lithium batteries and Newquay had over 60 people involved in a foreign object debris clearing exercise.
