About our Reporting
This is our first Group-wide sustainability report. Previously, our individual airports have produced their own reports, which will continue and can be downloaded from their websites. These reports include annual community reports for Manchester and East Midlands airports and reports of compliance with planning obligations at Manchester and Bournemouth airports.
All parts of the Group are included in this report: there are no joint ventures, subsidiaries or other business activities excluded. We report on the full impacts of our airports, including our tenants' and partners' contributions, except where stated otherwise. Our data-gathering processes are more advanced at Manchester and East Midlands airports, where our impacts are greater. This means that, in some cases, information is available for one or both of these, but not for Bournemouth or Humberside.
No significant events have been omitted that might affect stakeholder perceptions of MAG. We have endeavoured to include all material sustainability impacts. However, this is our first sustainability report and further material issues may come to light as our reporting progresses.
The data included in this report relates to the financial year April 2009 to March 2010, unless otherwise specified. Some data is captured by calendar years – in these cases we refer to "2009" rather than "2009/10". We aim to use standard methodologies for measuring and presenting our performance data, and have stated where this is not the case. This includes adhering to the Global Reporting Initiative's guidelines wherever feasible.
We intend to publish a Group-wide report annually. While we have not had our report independently verified on this occasion, we will review this in future years. As this is our first Group-wide report, we particularly welcome your feedback on the report or any aspect of our sustainability programme. Please send any comments or queries to sustainability@manairport.co.uk