Winners Gallery

Each year the winners of these prestigious awards are asked to submit an individual to join the ICARUS Supplier Committee for a 2 year period. This gives them the opportunity to feed into the ICARUS Advisory Group's thinking and to influence the work of ICARUS.

Below are the new winners for 2009/10!

Air 2009/10 Winner - Flybe

Being a small airline, in terms of capacity and fleet, has not stopped Flybe making significant strides to lead change the way an airline can do business in light of the environmental challenge the industry faces, and made efforts to lead the industry towards communicating its environmental impact to its customers so that they can make informed decisions. Flybe's modernisation of its fleet using young turbo-prop aircraft mean carbon emissions are low for the sectors that they operate. Its eco-labelling concept, which has been applied to it's flights, uses the easily understood customer labelling notation common to fridges, washing machines, and even houses for sale. Whilst it is not altogether surprising that this labelling has not been widely adopted within the industry, it's innovation is welcomed. The judges believe clear communication of environmental impact by company's to their customers will help the industry face up to the environmental challenge and enable customers to make more informed decisions

 Air 2009/10 Commendation - British Airways

 The judges were pleased to see continuing commitment by BA to developing strategies to minimise their environmental impact within their wider Corporate Social Responsibility programme. The company's new "One Destination" concept was welcomed as was the company's comprehensive structure for managing their carbon emissions along with noise and local air quality. The judges would have liked to see more detail on the metrics used and the performance to date.

Hotel 2009/10 Winner - Cavendish

Cavendish Hotel has returned as winners in the category for the second year running. It has built on its 2008/9 performance with a submission giving evidence of its continuing improvements of environmental policies and practices and ongoing plans to reduce their environmental impact throughout their business. 

Ground Transportation 2009/10 Commendation - Carey Cars

Carey Cars earns a Judges' commendation for it driver awareness pilot programme that aims to reduce fuel consumption by 10% by its drivers adopting more fuel-efficient driving behaviours. The Judges would have liked to see this more details on when the pilot will be rolled out to all its drivers.

Rail 2009/10 Winner - Eurostar

This year's best submission was from Eurostar and they are worthy winners of the Rail category for the second year running. It demonstrates commitment to reducing their environmental impact, it regularly measures and manages its impact and senior executives show strong leadership in respect of this issue. Last year Eurostar introduced their Tread Lightly programme in which it targeted a 25% per traveller journey CO2 reduction. Having already achieved this target, the company has increased its target to 35% by 2012. Its metrics both in proportional and absolute terms gave the judges a sense of impact on their business of the changes they have introduced. The company has shown that it is continually looking to see where environmental impacts can be reduced and to set bolder targets supported by challenging but achievable policies supported by a network of champions across the business. The company has shown an understanding of wider environmental issues with its policies of reducing waste wherever possible, sourcing supplies responsibly, and recycling what is used or produced.

Agency 2009/10 Winner - CWT

CWT once again were returned of winners in this category. The travel management company showed evidence of year on year improvement in reducing their environmental impact and developing products that can help their clients in better managing their C02 emissions. The judges were impressed with that the company was seeking new business models that would help clients manage their travel programme that would suggest low carbon options such as tele-presencing, switching to lower carbon alternatives, and managing the demand for travel altogether. ICARUS has long embraced the concept of reducing travel where possible and where not possible using the lowest carbon alternative and CWT is helping companies achieve this.