Community & Environment
Environmental management and community contribution are integral concepts embedded into Cairns Airport’s day to day and long term undertakings.
The benefits of Cairns Airport's involvement in the community are widespread, from generating jobs and economic revenue to providing sponsorships and supplying infrastructure.
Cairns Airport is proud to support and/or partner with the following events and organisations:
- The Cairns Airport Adventure Festival and Cairns Airport Ironman Cairns
- The Smith Family
- Cairns Festival
- Cairns Chinese New Year Festival
- Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival
- Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
- The Green Corridor Project
- Port Douglas Carnivale
- Skytrans Cairns Taipans
- TNQ Tourism Awards
- TNQ Tropical Innovation Awards
- Tourism Tropical North Queensland
- Advance Cairns
- FNQ Safety Connect
- Clean Up Australia Day
- Cairns Chamber of Commerce
- Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
- Tourism & Events Queensland
- Tourism Australia
- Queensland Tourism Industry Council
- The Tourism & Transport Forum
- The Queensland Resources Council
- Australian Airport Association
- Airports Council International
We are committed to achieving ecologically sustainable outcomes for all our operations and believe we have a responsibility to help protect, and minimise damage to, our natural surroundings. Cairns Airport has undertaken and continues to implement innovative initiatives which enhance our ecological sustainability including:
- LED lighting
- Water efficient tap fittings
- Sensor activated lighting and cooling systems
- Public place recycling systems
- Tenant operations recycling systems
- Mobile phone and printer cartridge recycling
- Provision of airport apron common use spill response kits