AO-0703 — Aircraft Environmental Impact Management and Mitigation at and around Airports

The objectives are to ensure that decisions taken at the local level achieve the optimum environmental performance from aircraft operations at and around airports, by achieving the most appropriate balance between social, economic and environmental imperatives. A key aim will be to balance sometimes conflicting needs for noise and atmospheric emissions reduction and to account for system wide implications of local decisions. A correctly balanced environmental regime at an airport can help to ensure that legal compliance to regulation is maintained, that the rules are harmonised to the extent possible, and the global and local impacts are minimised to the extent possible. Most importantly, a key objective is to ensure that non optimal environmental procedures and constraints are avoided and where such constraints are being considered that the least damaging options are selected. Optimum environmental efficiency and capacity can be achieved at and around airports through the collaborative local selection of the most appropriate ATM capabilities and OIs available, within an overarching and harmonising framework. This framework must involve all operational stakeholders.