Environmental Care is Airport Priority

24 February 2020

During the autumn-winter season when the teperature drops below zero, Airport Ground Handling Service and handling companies provide aircraft deicing services on a daily basis. To guarantee safe take off, Elephant vehicles spray aircraft with a special agent.
This season, there is a new player on the apron, the cleaning vehicle, which starting from 29 January has been vacuuming the agent spillages that remain after the aircraft handling.

Despite the strict requirements applied to such kind of agents regarding the human and environmental safety, they affect it upon reaching the soil and water, as the main active substances capable of taking care of ice are the chemical compounds of an artificial origin. Such cleaning has a major impact not only on the ecological situation, but also on the runway safety, as cleaning out the gel remains increases the friction coefficient. Environmental care is one of the Airport top priorities, so we are glad to cooperate with the handling company which on its own cost collects and transports the agent from the territory of the Airport and is capable of its further storage, disposal and processing.