Our Green Ideas Factory competition winners Dieter Bruneel and Dimitri Panneels saw their ideas come to life as Jetairfly introduced electric cars for ground staff at Brussels Airport this week.

With zero CO2 emissions, the cars offer energy savings of 70% and reduction in maintenance of 30%. The electric vehicles will be used to bring ground support agents and technicians to the aircraft before departure and on arrival. The use of the vehicles airside for short distances is an ideal application for electric vehicles; with a full battery they have a range of around 100km. Jetairfly has its headquarters and maintenance hangar Jetair Port at Brussels Airport with two charging stations for its electric cars.

This great initiative follows on from Jetairfly winning the Environment Award at Brussels Airport Aviation Awards last month.

The electric vehicles project will be monitored to evaluate whether we can roll it out across TUI Travel.

Green Ideas Factory saw 120 sustainability concepts submitted from colleagues across 18 countries with nearly 1,500 people voting for their favourite ideas. 10 finalists went on to develop their concept with the help of mentors from our business and Forum for the Future.

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