Heathrow Airport is a major international airport located in London, United Kingdom. Owned by BAA Ltd, it is one of the largest airports in the world, and the busiest airport in Europe, and is possibly the most important hub in the world, with a high number of passengers who utilise Heathrow simply as a transit point between aircraft, in addition to large numbers of passengers destined or leaving London. Associated with these large volumes are environmental issues caused by the commensurate level of aircraft movements. BAA addresses these issues on its website, in an attempt to educate the public about the actions it takes as a company to compensate. Whilst some might criticise the measures BAA takes, they are important initiatives which go a long way to combat the environmental impacts of the operation of Heathrow. Nevertheless, there are additional measures that BAA could implement to further reduce the environmental footprint of the airport.
Crayston (1992) lists some of the environmental issues associated with aviation. These include aircraft noise, aircraft emissions, airport construction and land use problems, water and soil contamination, in addition to disposal of wastes and the environmental effects of aircraft accidents and incidents. Aircraft noise is a major annoyance to some people living in the vicinity of an aerodrome, whilst according to Vedantham and Oppenheimer (1998), aircraft emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and mono-nitrogen oxides (NOX) contribute to the greenhouse effect and climate change, in addition to reacting with constituent gases of the atmosphere, producing acid rain, and affecting the production and destruction of ozone. Furthermore, aviation necessarily involves the use of large land areas f...
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The biggest challenge for IT transformation of WestJet is the low-efficient communication, and it is difficult for CIO and IT staff to achieve a alignment. The objective of new IT transformation is IT-business alignment, which serves for the core competency (customer-centered services).
One of the major facets of tourism is transportation. The ability for people and equipment to be able to move from one place to another smoothly is not only a convenience but a necessity. Air transportation is one of the largest and fastest growing industries associated with tourism. From passenger travel to food and supply transport there are seemingly ever increasing numbers of flights occurring to help meet the demand. With the increase in flights, comes the increase of pollutants into the air, water, and soil. These emissions, as well as those from the electricity production are linked to acid rain, chemical pollution and global warming. These pollutants have effects not only in populated cities, but also in isolated natural environments as well. S...
While many may have stated that intermodal transportation is better in long run for the environment, it is often the good with the bad altitude that pushes the goals of intermodal transportation across to the public. There is no doubt that the transport sector contributes significantly to the overall energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases (SAWADOGO; ANCIAUX; ROY 2012, May). Transportation systems and networks are being often associated with the main cause of global warming; often without even providing a solution. However, intermodal transportation leads the way in finding alternative fuels and even multiply modes of transportation to decrease emission. Intermodal transportation often choose the mode with the less of an environmental
Pollution is a major problem for all of us. People need to recognize this situation so we can start making a difference to this problem. In order to start making a difference, the federal government should increase gasoline tax by one dollar a gallon. Fifty percent of this dollar will go towards public transportation, since passenger cars and trucks are a major contribution towards air pollution, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A (10/4, http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/emsns.html). Due to the expected increase after this is put forth, the remaining fifty percent of the dollar will go towards safety on these transits. When public transportation increases, air pollution will decrease, which will lessen the harmful health risks towards the environment.
The Economist. 2013. Flying into more flak. [online] Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/ryanair [Accessed: 26 Mar 2014].
We cannot dispute that automobiles, factories, and power plants, displace an unprecedented twenty tons of carbon monoxide - per person - per year. There needs to be a reduction in emissions, yet we cannot focus on this aspect of global warming alone. There are many indicators that climatic change is influencing the frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes. If scientific global climate models are accurate, the present problems will be magnified in the near future.
British Airways has many responsibilities towards its stakeholders. The primary responsibility of British Airways towards the general public is to provide reliable, economical and sustainable mode transport throughout world. The company has the responsibility to perform well financially so as to provide value to the investors. It also has the moral responsibility to use sustainable modes of transport that make optimum use of the limite...
The main threats to the industry over the next five years are the rise in price of oil, legislation, the TSA, and labor costs. Each of these threats effect the scheduled air transportation industry not only endangers Delta Airlines but the entire industry. As the price of labor increases for ground operations and pilots this creates a burden on the industry by causing them to spend more to satisfy their labor requirements. The price of fuel increasing leads to the price of fuel to increase, which not only affects a single airline but every airline. With each time that the crude oil price rises the prices associated with the costs of refining the jet fuel as well as transporting it. These costs are distributed to each airline as they use this resource to transport passengers. As new politicians are elected to Congress and new administrators take charge of the FAA new regulations regarding this industry. These regulations affect everything from mergers to the airspace that the airlines operate in as well as what hubs and airports each airline operates out of. These factors are not issues that the industry faces, the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, creates an unnecessary burden for the passengers attempting to travel from one location to another. The TSA inspections required before a passenger is allowed to board their respective flights allows time for each passenger to become frustrated with the amount of time they have to allot for inspection as well as the invasion of their privacy.
Aviation has a huge environmental impact to the environment and society, the aircraft engines releases a noise that affects human life and the particulates and gases that are released from the aircraft engines contribute to climate change and increases the global warming. Despite the emission reductions from cars and more fuel-efficient and less polluting turbofan and turboprop engines, the rapid growth of air transportation in the recent years contributes to an increase in total pollution attributable to aviation. In the European Union, and increased greenhouse gas emissions from aviation increased by 87% between 1990 and 2006. Like any other form of public mass transportation that relies on resources that are extracted from the planet for e.g. Oil, and the airline cannot be considered sustainable in the long-term too. Because of the limited resources in which the Aviation relies on, it is more realistic to think how to improve the sustainability of the air transportation rather than achieving a sustainable development. Demand for air transport is growing constantly and, if this demand is to be met with all the benefits associated, the community or society must also accept the costs like; (Pollution, Aircraft noise, Environment change, risk, and resources consumption, etc.).
Airports can be considered as important national resources of most countries in the world. The main responsibility of an airport is in transportation of people and goods and in internal and global business. They are where the nation’s aviation system connects with other modes of transportation and where state responsibility for managing and regulating air traffic operations intersects with the role of governments that own and operate most airports. However, most major airports are owned and operated by the private sectors. This is due to several reasons such as to improve efficiency and economic performance, be more competitive as well as to maximize the community’s return from the airport assets in which public enterprise found out to be less efficient in term of its production and management.
BA’s approach towards corporate social responsibility on social is that it has decided to enable up to 500 applicants in a year to realize their dreams through the London 2012 Great Britain program. It is also taking initiatives in helping vulnerable children around the world. On environmental, BA is planning to reduce CO2 emission by 50% by 2050. It is also trying to reduce the noise per flight by 15% by 2015. BA has plans to recycle its waste up to 50 percent by 2010 and aims to send zero waste to landfill by 2010 across Heathrow and Gatwick. Waste management – increase their overall level of recycling to 60% by 2015 (britishairways.com, 2009).
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Until 10 years ago, air pollution was thought to be just an urban or local problem until it was discovered that the pollutants could move across continents and oceans. Air pollution is the fundamental factor that causes greenhouse gases, hence climate change and global warming. Air pollutants are the waste products generated from industrial and other processes. They usually come in gases, though aerosols (particles suspended in air, emitted as or formed by transformatio...
This identifies the main micro-environmental influences by classifying them into six groups: Political, Economical, Sociocultural, Technological, Environmental and Legal. By applying this framework to Ryanair it is possible to summarise the key forces in the general environment (see appendix A) likely to present opportunities and threats to the organisation (Johnson & Scholes 2002).
The competitive advantage of an airport depends on five core factors, namely the Spatial, Facility, Demand, Service and Managerial factor. The Spatial factor refers to the level of regional development surrounding and around the airport, for example, an international trade zones, convention centres, and other facilities. Facility factors are the level of facilities and the airport’s ability to expand and increased its facilities. Demand factor refers to the level of origin-destination demand and that of transit and transfer traffic volumes for hub-and-spoke network. Service factor refers to the...