Source: ACI-LAC Airports Council International Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) is pleased to announce that Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), in Mexico, has achieved Level 1 of the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) program, becoming the 100th airport in Latin America and the Caribbean to join this global initiative. ACA accreditation is the only independent global certification program that evaluates airports' efforts to manage and reduce their carbon emissions. Level 1 recognizes that the airport has completed a verified inventory of its emissions, establishing the basis for future reduction actions. This accreditation marks an important step in AIFA's commitment to environmental sustainability and climate action by successfully completing the process of identifying its emission sources and calculating its carbon footprint. [...]

Source: ACI-LAC Bogotá leads in passengers, cargo, and movements, while the region consolidates growth Airports Council International – Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) presents the 2024 ranking of the best-performing airports in the region, based on passenger traffic, aircraft movements, and air cargo. The 2024 rankings reflect the diversity and dynamism of a region where air transport is key to its socioeconomic progress and airports play an increasingly important role as drivers of development. BOGOTÁ: The New Leader in the Region For the first time, El Dorado International Airport (BOG) in Bogotá, Colombia, has been crowned #1 in Latin America and the Caribbean in all three main categories: Passengers: 45.8 million (+16%) Aircraft movements: 360,044 (+13.4%) Air cargo: 809,021 [...]

Source: ACI-LAC The Airports Council International for Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) is pleased to announce that Floripa Airport, operated by Zurich Airport Brasil, has become the first airport in Brazil to achieve Level 4 (“Transformation”) of the ACI Airport Carbon Accreditation program. To reach Level 4, the airport demonstrated a consistent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, consolidated stakeholder engagement at the airport site, and established a long-term carbon management strategy aimed at achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. This milestone aligns Floripa Airport with the aviation industry’s Net Zero commitment, in accordance with the Paris Agreement and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Floripa Airport achieved this result through the tracking and monitoring of 30 categories [...]