ACI Europe Best Airport Award Winners for 2020 Announced

The winners of the 16th Annual ACI Europe Best Airport Awards were announced yesterday during the 30th ACI Europe Annual Congress & Assembly which was live streamed from the Skyhall at Brussels Airport.

Release time : 2020-11-19 09:47:00

source : Travel Daily News

the move’ project and the introduction of advanced UV disinfection technology. The airport’s strategy of leveraging team skills to foster innovation, in partnership with Portuguese universities, was another factor in recognition. The airport was also praised for using passenger feedback to continue to improve the safety and health measures in place.

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport was highly commended in this category.

‘Over 40 million passengers’ category

This year’s Award in the ‘over 40 million passenger’ category went to Aeroporti di Roma S.p.a. in recognition of its comprehensive health and safety measures to restore passenger confidence and its strong stakeholder and community engagement. Aeroporti di Roma’s leadership in managing the COVID-19 crisis was underlined by the judges, in particular the drive-in antigen test centre at Rome Fiumicino Airport and the use of new technologies such as automated sanitation and the ‘’smart helmet’’ to monitor passengers’ body temperature via thermal radiation.

Istanbul Airport was highly commended for this Award.

Eco-Innovation Award

The Eco-Innovation Award specifically recognises airports’ outstanding environmental performance, in particular innovative approaches to environmental management. This year, entries were required to provide details of an innovative project in one of the following three environmental disciplines: Climate Change, Local Air Quality, Water and Waste Water Management. The jury for this Award comprised members of the independent Advisory Board of the global carbon management programme, Airport Carbon Accreditation.

This year’s Eco-Innovation Award went to Budapest Airport (currently accredited at Level 3+ Neutrality within Airport Carbon Accreditation), which had applied under the discipline of Climate Change. The airport was commended for a strong focus on enhancing e-mobility with