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Annual Review  
& Sustainability  
Report 2022

Menzies Aviation

In this report

CONTENTS 

Introduction from our Chairman and CEO 

Chairman’s introduction 

About us 

The year in review 

Our Purpose and Culture 

What we do 

What sets us apart 

CEO’s introduction 

Our strategy 

BUSINESS REVIEW 

Americas 

Europe 

Middle East, Africa & Asia (MEAA) 

Oceana & South East Asia (OSEA) 

Air Menzies International 

STRATEGY IN ACTION 

Cargo innovation 

Growing with customers 

Making Menzies a great place to work 

OUR SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 

All In – our plan for a sustainable future 

Environment 

Safety 

People 

Ethics 

Supporting our Communities  

Governance 

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

26

29

32

34

37

Chairman’s introduction

3

About us

4

Business review

11

Sustainability strategy

19

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022INTRODUCTION FROM OUR CHAIRMAN AND CEO

Welcome to the  
new Menzies Aviation

Menzies Aviation is the leading service partner 
to the world’s airports and airlines, with 
operations at more than 250 airports in 60 
countries.

We became the largest aviation services company 
by number of countries when we joined forces with 
National Aviation Services in August 2022. 

We are combining the best of both worlds and have 
big plans for our business, which is well positioned 
to accelerate growth in the years ahead. 

Our ambition is to be the undisputed number one 
in our industry. This means having the best safety 
record, the highest growth rate in the market and 
the largest footprint. 

Achieving this will only be possible if we have the 
best talent and experienced leadership working 
together to ensure we are the industry leader. 
Our global team of 40,000 highly trained people 
are absolutely vital to our business and we thank 
them for their ongoing commitment to keeping 
passengers, aircraft and cargo moving around the 
clock, every minute of every day.

We take pride in providing the safest, most secure 
and consistent services tailored to our customers’ 
needs. This will continue to be our priority as we 
grow alongside our customers and support their 
sustainability journeys as the industry transitions  
to a net-zero future. 

OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

No.1

by number of countries

60 

countries

For us, sustainability is at the heart of everything we 
do. It’s the cornerstone of our business strategy and 
we are pleased to share progress on our goals.

We hope you find our 2022 Annual Review & 
Sustainability Report informative and insightful. 

Thank you for your support. 

No.2

256 

by number of airports

airports

6

continents

Read more page 4 

40k

employees

Hassan El-Houry
Chairman

Philipp Joeinig
CEO

His Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait Belinda Lewis, Menzies 
Aviation CEO Philipp Joeinig and Menzies Aviation Chairman Hassan El-Houry 
opening our new Global Headquarters in London.

“ Together, we will shape 
the future of aviation.”

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022 
CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

New era  
of growth

It is my pleasure to introduce our Annual Review & 
Sustainability Report for 2022. As the world leader in 
aviation services, we have a responsibility to generate 
sustainable growth and help shape a successful future 
for all our stakeholders. 

Aviation connects people, businesses and ideas across continents and 
cultures. This was brought into sharp focus over the last three years as 
we experienced one of the sharpest declines in aviation history, and 
equally, a rapid recovery. The industry is emerging with a heightened 
sense of responsibility, including delivering on its net-zero ambitions. 
Growth will always be important, but it must be both responsible and 
sustainable.  

Menzies is the world leader in aviation services, and we are unwavering 
in our commitment to retain this position. Over the past year we have 
expanded our global footprint, nurtured customer relationships, and 
put sustainability at the heart of everything we do. Supporting this 
success is our people, which is why we are focused on attracting, 
retaining and developing the industry’s best talent.

We now have a team of 40,000 highly trained people and we are 
working hard to harness their passion and ensure everyone can reach 
their full potential whether that be on the ramp, in a cargo warehouse 
or providing essential back-office support. There is a seen and unseen 
team behind every aircraft turn and we want to ensure their value is 
recognised. 

Combining Menzies with National Aviation Services under the 
ownership of Agility reshaped the aviation services industry, and 
marked a new era of accelerated growth for our business. We added 
three new countries in 2022, a further three so far in 2023, numerous 
new airports, and countless new clients around the world. With solid 
foundations in place, we remain resolute in delivering our refreshed 
business strategy that will ensure Menzies will go from strength to 
strength in the years ahead.

Yes, we want to continue the momentum so we can offer a greater 
range of services to customers at more locations, but we also want to 
invest in technology, innovate to make aviation more sustainable and 
efficient and have the strongest team to deliver the safest and most 
consistent services to our airline and airport partners. 

We want to support our customers’ growth ambitions and collaborate 
on their sustainability journeys. Aviation is constantly evolving, and as 
such, so will we. 

As the industry leader, we have an incredible opportunity to reshape 
our industry for the better and create a fair and sustainable future. 
All the best for the year ahead.

Hassan El-Houry
Chairman

Our journey

1833
Founded in Edinburgh, 
Scotland as a bookseller
1962
Listed on the London Stock 
Exchange
1965
Business grows to 90 wholesale 
warehouses, 350 railway 
bookstalls and 161 retail shops
1989
Acquires an airline cargo 
services business, laying the 
groundwork for the Menzies we 
see today
1993
Air Menzies International 
established
1998
Divests retail division, including 
220 bookstores and 220 
children’s toy and games shops
2000
Becomes international cargo 
courier with acquisition of the 
Ogden Group that opens the 
door to ground handling
2006
Cargo and ground handling 
services start in Australia and 
America
2017
Becomes largest independent 
into-plane fuelling and fuel farm 
management provider
2018
Menzies Distribution is sold to 
become a pure-play aviation 
business
2022
Menzies is combined with 
National Aviation Services to 
create a network of more than 
250 airports

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022ABOUT US

Our ambition is to be the 
undisputed No.1 aviation  
services company in the world.

NUMBER OF AIRPORTS

NUMBER OF AIRPORTS 

NUMBER OF AIRPORTS

NUMBER OF AIRPORTS

Americas

121

Europe

49

MEAA

61

OSEA

25

 No.1

by number of countries

 No.2

by number of airports

 256airports

 60countries

6continents

 40kemployees

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Our business has been constantly 
evolving since 1833. We are proud of 
our heritage and journey to become 
the world’s largest aviation services 
company. In 2022, we entered  
a new era of accelerated growth. 

January 
Following a competitive process, we renewed our contract to 
provide into-plane fuelling operations for Shell Aviation across its  
UK fuelling network at seven airports. 

February
Our wholesale freight forwarder Air Menzies International increased 
its presence in Europe with a new branch in Frankfurt, our first 
location in Germany. 

March
Our first Women in Leadership cohort completed the programme, 
which aims to support career development within Menzies and 
contribute to our gender diversity goals. More than 70 women have 
completed the programme.

April
We held our first of two safety and security MORSE Weeks for 2022 
to reinvigorate, inspire and influence the behaviours that help create 
a positive safety culture, which ultimately prevents incidents. 

May
The winners of our first We Are Menzies Awards were announced. 
The awards were created to recognise colleagues living our values 
every day. Regional finalists and five global winners were selected 
from 1,200 nominations. 

June
We won the International Air Cargo Handler of the Year award at 
the 2022 STAT Times International Awards for Excellence in Cargo 
in Mumbai, reflecting the success of our cargo business which has 
grown from 36 locations in 2018, to 74 today.

July
We joined the Mission Possible Partnership to help decarbonise aviation. 
In collaboration with the Clean Skies for Tomorrow coalition, which we 
are also part of, the MPP published a new Aviation Transition Strategy to 
achieve net-zero aviation by 2050. 

August
We were acquired by Agility and de-listed from the London Stock 
Exchange. As part of the deal, we joined forces with National 
Aviation Services to create the world’s largest aviation services 
company.

September
The integration of NAS started in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire with the team 
transitioning to our systems, processes and brand. The seamless 
integration set a great example for the stations that followed. 

October
A new five-year ground handling license for nine airports in South 
Africa was followed by several significant ground and air cargo 
contracts. The extension allows us to continue growing our business 
in South Africa, where we have been operating since 2008.

November
We won our first Wizz Air contract outside of Europe to provide 
ground services for Wizz Air Abu Dhabi at Kuwait International 
Airport. We added another European location with Wizz at Nice, 
building on our relationship at several European airports, including 
London, Budapest and Prague. 

December 
We opened our new global headquarters in London signalling our 
intent and reach as the world’s largest aviation services company. 
We are extremely proud to be a British business with a rich Scottish 
heritage and it’s fitting that our headquarters have returned to the 
city where John Menzies was first inspired to launch his successful 
business 190 years ago. 

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022OUR PURPOSE AND CULTURE

Our sense of purpose and responsibility has naturally 
developed over the last few years, as we have recognised 
the value defining a clear purpose has brought and 
continues to bring to our company. 

Through creating a clearer ‘sense of self’ and what we believe in as 
a company, has helped to shape and weave together our values, 
culture, strategy, approach to sustainability, and to analyse our 
stakeholder relationships. This has firmly set us on a path to lead 
and effect positive change, deliver leading sustainable aviation 
services and achieve our ambition of becoming the undisputed 
number one aviation services provider.

Our purpose 
Our purpose is to provide safe, trusted and sustainable 
aviation services serving the needs of our customers now 
and for the future. 

Our culture 
Our culture is built on strong ethics and integrity, 
underpinned by our values and purpose. 

We continually strive to develop an inclusive and 
nurturing environment, where people are guided and 
inspired to deliver their best for themselves, for each 
other and for our customers, every day. 

Our strategy
Our strategy sets out our plan for achieving our purpose, 
accelerated sustainable growth and strong returns, 
securing our place as the number one aviation services 
provider in the world. 

ESG and Sustainability
All In is our plan for a fair and sustainable future. It is at 
the heart of everything we do. Through our ambitious 
goals and plans, and collaboration with our partners, 
we will lead the way in delivering the most sustainable 
aviation logistics services, enabling responsible 
accelerated growth for a thriving future.

Read more about our strategy and sustainability strategy  
on pages 10 and 19 

Values 
Living our values every day is what enables us to achieve 
our ambition and deliver our purpose. They are at the 
core of our business and help us to create and maintain 
an inclusive culture, guide our decisions and actions and 
deliver the best for our customers.

Read more about our values on page 8 

O U R   RELATIONSHIPS

O U R   C U LTURE & VALUES

People
We are lucky to have over 40,000 experienced, diverse and 
dedicated people who develop our culture and help shape an 
inclusive working environment that people want to be a part 
of. We offer varied careers in dynamic environments, ensuring 
our employees remain engaged in delivering results.  
The safety, wellbeing and ongoing development of our 
employees is core to developing pride in the workplace and 
creating great teams.

Safety  
& Security

Customer 
orientated

People  
centric

Targeted 
sustainable 
growth

Customer 
Focus

Optimised 
portfolio mix

T R A T E GIC PRIO

RIT
I
E

S

R   S

U

O

OUR 
PURPOSE

Margin 
improvement

Environment

O

U

R S

USTAINABI L I T Y  

R S

A

L

P I L

Ethical

Integrity

Agility

Safety

People  

Customers
We work with customers in a range of markets, ensuring 
our service offering is the right one to help them meet their 
own business challenges. As a professional aviation services 
business, our customers benefit from our best-in-class 
services, approach to safety and flexible technical solutions.

Suppliers
We seek to work with suppliers who share the 
same values and sustainable aspirations as we do 
and who can support our growth and add value 
to our business. Developing resilient, ethical and 
sustainable supply chains globally is our priority. 

Communities & Partners
We rely on, and aim to make a positive impact on, 
the local communities and environments in which 
we operate by reducing environmental impacts, 
creating employment opportunities, supporting 
local charities and community initiatives and 
providing sustainable solutions for our customers. 

Governments
Engaging with governments including participation 
in consultations provides a mechanism to share 
our aviation industry experience and discuss how 
governmental policy and political change impacts 
our operations, how future sustainable aviation policy 
could develop, and enables us to seek governmental 
support that will help create an efficient, sustainable 
and decarbonised aviation industry for the future. 

Teamwork

Regulators
Engaging with regulators and ensuring full compliance with 
industry, environmental and corporate regulations, keeps 
our business safe, secure and operating to the highest 
standards. We welcome opportunities to consult on and help 
evolve regulations to ensure continued relevance, challenge 
companies to improve, and drive positive change. 

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022 
 
 
WHAT WE DO

Our aviation services are vital in keeping passengers and air cargo moving 
around the clock, every minute of every day. We aim to deliver the safest, most 
secure, and sustainable aviation services tailored to our customers’ needs. 

Fuel services

Air cargo services

We are the world’s largest independent provider 
of into-plane fuelling services and fuel farm 
management for oil companies, airports, airlines 
and other partners across the world. Managing the 
refuelling of aircraft and the infrastructure required 
to support this service is a precision activity which 
must operate to exacting government and industry 
standards, including safety and environmental 
regulations. We provide:
•  Into-plane fuelling.
•  Fuel storage and hydrant management.
•  Technical services.

We manage the global transportation of  
high value and time critical cargo. Decades of 
experience, supported by cost-effective and 
innovative logistics solutions, means we are trusted 
to provide a reliable and secure service. We provide:
•  Warehouse storage facilities.
•  Build-up and breakdown.
•  Customs clearance requirements. 
•  Aircraft loading and unloading.
•  Freighter aircraft handling.
•  Special cargo handling such as live animals  

and pharma.

•  Labour-only services.
•  Freight forwarding.

3maircraft fuelled in 2022

2mcargo tonnes  

handled in 2022

Ground services

We provide time-critical airport services, ensuring passengers, 
crew and aircraft complete journeys efficiently and on schedule. 
Every passenger journey can have multiple seen and unseen 
interactions with our teams and we always do our best to deliver 
a safe and trusted service alongside a world-class passenger 
experience. Our services include:
•  Passenger services from check in to boarding.
•  Lounges and Meet & Assist.
•  Ramp handling and baggage.
•  De-icing aircraft.
•  Aircraft cabin cleaning.
•  Engineering.
•  Fixed Base Operations.

 1.1maircraft turns  

handled in 2022

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022WHAT SETS US APART

We are proud of our heritage and journey to become the leading 
aviation services provider. 
We are a vital component in the aviation industry, and we strive to be 
the best at what we do. Our teams deliver the safest, most secure and 
sustainable aviation services to airline and airport customers every minute  
of every day. We lead the way, but we owe it to our people, our customers 
and communities to never be complacent.

Safety & Security

People

Sustainability

Innovation

Collaboration

The safety and security 
of our operations and our 
people is our number one 
priority. We perform better 
than the industry average 
for aircraft ground damage 
and the number of security 
incidents and injuries are 
trending down. Our best-
in-class safety and security 
culture encourages people  
to follow procedures because 
they want to, not because 
they have too.

We are a people business,  
and our people are what 
makes us unique. We offer 
industry leading training 
that is consistent across 
our global network so 
everyone has the right tools 
and training to do their job 
safely. We care about our 
employees and want them 
to reach their full potential 
in an inclusive and diverse 
culture. Wellbeing,  
career development and 
recognition initiatives all 
contribute to this.

We are an industry leader in 
ESG and sustainability. All In 
is our plan to create a fair and 
sustainable future by achieving 
ambitious goals that will make 
a tangible difference. It’s the 
cornerstone of our business 
strategy and is part of our 
decision-making process. We 
are transparent and robust in 
our reporting so stakeholders 
can track our progress. We also 
collaborate with colleagues, 
customers and partners to 
achieve our goals, while 
also supporting their own 
sustainability journeys.

We engage with our customers 
to meet their needs and deliver 
innovative solutions. End to end 
integration ensures we have the 
right people at the right place 
at the right time to deliver for 
our customers. Our mobile first 
approach ensures real time 
oversight and control of global 
operations, reducing paper and 
increasing efficiency. We are 
investing in automation and 
improved efficiency and on-time 
performance.

We are a vital component 
of the aviation industry 
alongside airlines and airports. 
Collaboration across the sector 
is essential as we work towards 
shaping the future of aviation. 
Our agile mindset and willingness 
to collaborate creates a solutions 
orientated environment. We pride 
ourselves in developing strong 
customer relationships to ensure 
we are the partner of choice.

Our values 
Living our values every day is 
what enables us to achieve our 
ambition and deliver our purpose. 
They are at the core of our 
business and help us to create 
and maintain an inclusive culture, 
guide our decisions and actions 
and deliver the best for our 
customers.

Safety & 
Security
Safety & 
Security 
always comes 
first, that’s 
why we never 
compromise.

Teamwork
Building 
relationships 
with those 
around us 
makes  
us all stronger 
and more 
successful.

Integrity
We’re open and 
honest in all 
we say and do, 
creating trust, 
and growing 
our reputation 
for high 
standards. 

Agility
Every day is 
different; we 
have the energy 
and expertise 
to respond 
successfully to 
any situation.

Customer 
Focus
We deliver the 
best service for 
our customers 
and create 
relationships 
built on trust.

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022CEO’S INTRODUCTION

Accelerating 
growth

Menzies has been flying over the past year with the 
expansion of our network, commercial success and 
advancing our sustainability journey.

2022 revenue

+26%

Increase compared to 2021

Underlying operating margin

5.9%

Our people are vital to aviation, and I thank them for 
their commitment during what has been an exciting, 
but at times demanding, year with workforce 
challenges impacting the wider aviation supply 
chain. 

The overall recovery of flight volumes was 
heartening to see with IATA data showing global 
traffic reaching 85% of pre-pandemic levels in 
January this year. A positive sign of the industry’s 
recovery but also highlighting we still have some 
way to go. The recovery in flight volumes and our 
commercial success resulted in a strong financial 
performance in 2022, with a 26% increase in revenue 
compared to the previous year.

Covid-19 continued to impact our business to 
varying degrees. We started 2022 with the Omicron 
variant followed by the challenge of recruitment 
keeping pace with the rapid rebound of travel. Some 
regions recovered faster than others, closely linked 
to the speed at which governments eased border 
restrictions. Despite the headwinds, we maximized 
opportunities throughout 2022 and entered three 
new countries. Our freight forwarding business,  
Air Menzies International, and our air cargo division 
experienced record highs. Both expanded their 
global reach.

With passenger journeys expected to recover in 
2024 and global passenger growth of between 1.5% 
and 3.8% over the next 20 years, we must ensure all 
segments of aviation have the workforce required  
to keep people and cargo moving seamlessly.  
With more than 40,000 colleagues around the 
globe, the Menzies team is back to full strength and 
with further business opportunities in the pipeline 
our team is set to grow. Welcome to everyone who 
has joined Menzies this past year, including our 
fantastic National Aviation Services colleagues.

Headquartered in London, we are a truly global 
company and trusted partner in 60 countries. 
Agility’s acquisition of our company last year marked 
a new era of accelerated growth. We have big plans 
as we strive to become the undisputed number one 
in aviation services. 

Menzies now has the resources to scale up our air 
cargo, ground and fuel services and also innovate 
to ensure our services are efficient, sustainable 
and consistent. Safety will always be our number 
one priority and is a core pillar of our sustainability 
strategy, alongside ethics, people and environment. 
We are making progress across all four pillars as 
we aim to create a fair and sustainable future. 
Collaborating with customers and partners is high on 
the agenda to help them achieve their sustainability 
goals as well as supporting the wider industry to 
reach net-zero targets. 

Our leadership team remains focused on delivering 
our business strategy. While we are resolute on 
accelerating growth, it must be both responsible 
and sustainable. This means optimising our portfolio 
mix, targeting new business and entering new 
markets, improving our margin, remaining customer 
orientated and being a people centric business. 

I would like to thank our customers, partners and 
everyone at Menzies for their support throughout 
the year. It’s a great time to be part of Menzies and 
I’m proud to be part of the team. 

Philipp Joeinig
CEO

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022OUR STRATEGY 

Our strategic priorities

Strategic 
pillar

Optimised  
portfolio mix

Customer 
orientated

People  
centric

Targeted  
sustainable growth

Margin  
improvement

Curate optimum portfolio mix 
of customers and services 
to deliver growth and strong 
returns.

Be the partner of choice by 
creating strong relationships 
with customers and helping 
to deliver their goals.

Invest in employees to build 
a diverse team of motivated 
and passionate people to 
deliver safe and secure 
services.

Expand global footprint 
responsibly and sustainably, 
focusing on emerging 
aviation markets with high 
growth.

Drive margin improvement 
by focusing on organic 
and inorganic growth, cost 
management, and portfolio 
management.

What we 
did in 2022

Delivered a  
more resilient  
revenue mix

Focused on being  
a solutions orientated 
provider

Put our people  
at the heart  
of our business

Focused on higher 
margin emerging 
markets

Overall  
margin  
improvement 

•  Continued growth of air cargo 

•  We have enhanced our customer 

•  Continued to prioritise the 

services increasing our network 
to over 70 facilities with over  
2m tonnes of cargo handled.

•  First Australian line maintenance 

services contracts won.

•  Through the merger with NAS 

our lounge and executive 
services portfolio has 
significantly increased.  
•  Increased our fuel farm 

operations to over 50 locations 
in the US and Canada.

focus by investing in new 
systems and doubling the 
number of key accounts.
•  Our track record of securing 
new business continued with 
significant new contracts 
secured during the year.

•  Collaborated with customers 
on sustainability initiatives to 
collectively reduce our carbon 
footprint.

safety of our people and create 
inclusive working environments.

•  Focused on allyship and 

unconscious bias, delivering new 
training to support employees.

•  Expanded our Women in 

Leadership programme and 
Living leadership training and 
career development.

•  Range of initiatives focused 
on attracting and retaining 
employees.

•  The merger with NAS increased 
our portfolio spread bringing 
a number of new locations in 
emerging markets.

•  Within the Americas region we 
have started new operations in  
three new countries. 

•  The merger with NAS and its 

presence in emerging markets 
helped to grow the overall Group 
margin.

•  Throughout the year we worked 

on productivity and new 
innovations.

•  Evolved our All In sustainability 

•  Continued to look at and add 

plan and how we apply a 
sustainability lens to our 
decision-making and support 
responsible growth.

Looking 
ahead

We will continue to focus on 
delivering a balanced portfolio 
between air cargo, fuel and ground 
services, expanding and growing 
our ancillary services where 
appropriate.

Collaboration and strong 
relationships with customers has 
never been more important. We will 
build on our existing relationships 
and seek out new partnerships.

We will continue to enhance 
the ways we communicate with 
front-line colleagues, build on 
our employee wellbeing support, 
ensure our diversity forums 
inform positive change, focus 
on leadership development and 
embed our values across the 
business.

We are targeting accelerated 
growth across all markets with a 
particular focus on maximising 
opportunities in emerging 
markets and from our ability 
to offer increased services in 
more locations. We aim to be a 
sustainability leader, and ensure  
we support our growth responsibly.

higher margin revenue streams.

•  Secured key contracts across 
the network at favourable 
rates which helps build margin 
security. 

•  Focused business ready to 

support accelerated growth in 
existing and new markets.

We will continue targeting higher 
margin business wins, developing 
an optimised portfolio that 
attracts a higher margin and 
focusing on emerging aviation 
markets for business development 
opportunities.

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022BUSINESS REVIEW

Americas

Our Americas region delivered an outstanding year as measured by safety, 
operational performance and commercial success making it the best year  
yet for the region. 

Q&A: John Redmond, EVP Americas

What were the key trends across the 
Americas market in 2022? 
The Americas market exited 2022 in a far stronger 
place compared to the start of that year with 
international and domestic flight volumes recovering.
We saw North America’s overall flight volumes 
return to 83% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of 
2022 and Latin America returned to 81%, according 
to IATA. 

Difficult labour markets were a key trend and 
challenge for aviation and other service industries 
across the Americas. The ability to hire and retain 
employees remains the biggest challenge in our 13 
countries, but we are performing better than we did 
in the previous year. As a result, we are continuing to 
provide safe, secure and consistent quality service to 
our existing customers, while adding new customers 
to our portfolio through multiple contract awards 
across the region throughout 2022. 

Looking back at the previous year, how did 
your region perform?
2022 was a good year as measured by safety and 
operational performance, and this was validated 
by the many significant contracts we secured 
throughout the year. We renewed all of our material 
expiring contracts including with our largest 
customers in Mexico and Colombia and we achieved 

the largest net sales wins in the history of our 
region, making 2022 our best year yet in the 
Americas. During the year we won a series of 
large contracts with several of our key global 
airline customers including Copa, Norse Atlantic, 
Avianca, Mas Air, Frontier, Delta and many others.

Where are the key opportunities for 
accelerated growth?
We have several acquisitions in the pipeline for 
the year ahead with a focus on Latin America and 
the Caribbean. We are also noticing that some of 
the smaller, privately owned service providers are 
struggling to cope with the challenging labour 
market, which is creating new opportunities for us 
to win new business and open in new cities. 

We are excited about our renewed momentum 
in cargo and in 2023 we will open new cargo 
warehouses in several locations including Chicago 
Rockford and Philadelphia airports in the US and 
Medellin Airport in Colombia and we expect to 
expand our cargo footprint further with a number 
of acquisitions. We expect to expand our into-
plane fuelling services and fuel farm management 
in North America, where we have a strong fuel 
services presence. Key new markets we are 
focusing on are Dallas Fort Worth International 
Airport, Boston Logan Airport and Chicago 
Midway International Airport amongst others. 

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

CASE STUDY

Trusted partner in Latin America
We continued to grow our presence in Latin 
America, especially Mexico and Colombia where 
we have renewed all key customer contracts and 
consolidated our position as the market leader 
in both countries. In Mexico, we onboarded 
Aeromexico as a customer in over 20 cities thanks 
to our focus on partnering and growing with 
customers. All of this resulted in a 50% increase in 
ground handling turns across Latin America. 

Fuel services gain momentum
The continued momentum in our North America 
fuelling business included two new tank farm 
management contracts at Dallas Fort Worth 
International Airport and William P. Hobby Airport 
in Houston, taking our total number of tank farm 
management sites to over 50 in the US and Canada. 
We also secured new into-plane fuelling business 
with several customers taking our region’s total 
fuelling turns to over 2.5 million per annum.

Montreal operations 
launched

We are now based at 14 airports in Canada after 
securing a ground handling license at Montreal-
Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to provide a 
full suite of ground services until the end of 2030. 
Operations launched in May this year with several 
airlines, including Copa Airlines, Flair Airlines, Lynx 
Air, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc and Turkish 
Airlines, with more customers in the pipeline. With 
our excellent track record of setting up operations 
at pace, we are confident the expansion from 
cargo into ground services at YUL will be a great 
success. Since our entry into Canada in 2005, we 
have developed long-standing partnerships with 
our airline customers and grown our presence 
across the country in multiple stations, delivering 
fuel, cargo, and ground services.

Philadelphia cargo entry
We were pleased to be selected as a key cargo 
partner at Philadelphia International Airport, as part 
of its cargo expansion strategy. We will occupy a 
new 150,000sqft facility that will target pharma and 
e-commerce cargo. 

Countries

13

Employees

15.7k

Airports

121

Percentage of  
Menzies total revenue

34%

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Europe

Our exceptionally high contract renewal rate in Europe is testament to our  
high-quality service and strong customer relationships. 

Q&A: Miguel Gomez Sjunnesson, 
EVP Europe

How did the region cope with the rapid 
rebound in air travel last year? 
The surge in demand for air travel combined with 
workforce shortages created a turbulent year for 
Europe’s aviation industry. After a stop-start two 
years, Covid-19 travel restrictions began to ease 
permanently in the first quarter of 2022 followed 
by a rapid increase in flights with some airports 
exceeding pre-pandemic passenger volumes. The 
entire supply chain was impacted by staff shortages 
causing a range of challenges, including constantly 
changing flight schedules which had a knock-on 
effect on our operations. We ramped up recruitment 
in preparation for the holiday travel peaks and we 
hired over 4,000 people during the year in a very 
difficult labour market fuelled by low unemployment 
and high inflation. 

How did you achieve commercial success in 
this difficult climate? 
We worked extremely hard to maintain close 
working relationships with all our customers. As a 
result, we secured long-term airline partnerships, 
illustrated by a 96% renewal rate in 2022.

We expanded our footprint to 16 European 
countries, including a joint venture in Montenegro 
and Serbia and a strategic partnership in Milan, 
Italy. We delivered our bid to operate at 41 airports 

in Spain and we look forward to finding out the 
result later this year. We have a healthy pipeline of 
opportunities, including entry into Portugal, as we 
look to increase our presence across Europe. 

Looking ahead to 2023, what’s in store 
for your region?
Each month we are seeing an improvement in 
passenger volumes and summer volumes are 
expected to exceed last year. The industry has 
been focused on rebuilding and also ensuring the 
supply chain is resilient. Workforce challenges 
will continue to be felt in some countries and the 
inflationary environment is forcing costs up so 
we will need to navigate our way through this 
alongside our customers. The war in Ukraine 
continues to have an impact on the region, 
particularly on cargo volumes which are proving 
slower to improve compared to the rest of the 
world. 

As always, safety and security are our number 
one priority and with so many new employees 
across our region we are focused on training 
and upskilling everyone so they can provide 
safe, secure and consistent services to our airline 
customers whether that be in fuelling, air cargo or 
ground services.

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

CASE STUDY

Menzies lands in Italy
We formed a partnership with AGS Handling in 2022 
to provide ground services in Italy, with operations 
launching at Milan Malpensa Airport in early 2023. 
We are providing passenger and ramp services to 
24,500 easyJet flights per year. We have a well-
established relationship with easyJet dating back 
15 years and we now support them at their three 
largest hubs in Milan, London Gatwick and London 
Luton, and in eight countries across Europe.

Eastern Europe expansion
We expanded our presence in Eastern Europe with 
the acquisition of a majority stake in a ground services 
company at three airports in Montenegro and Serbia. 
Both countries have significant potential for growth 
with Serbia building itself as hub for the Balkan region 
and rising tourism in Montenegro. 

Air Canada partnership extended
We renewed a significant contract with Air Canada 
at London Heathrow to deliver passenger, ramp, 
cabin cleaning and lounge services at the airline’s 
largest airport operation internationally. We also 
won a new contract to provide a full suite of ground 
services for Air Canada at Copenhagen. Both were 
the first locations to adopt the terms of a Master 
Services Agreement (MSA), which streamlines our 
contractual process with Air Canada.

UK fuels network 
grows

Our long-standing relationship with Shell Aviation 
was extended with the renewal of a contract to 
provide into-plane fuelling operations across 
its entire UK fuelling network, spanning seven 
airports. We have increasingly grown our fuels 
service provision for Shell Aviation and the 
renewal was testament to our strong track record 
as a safe and efficient operator. The renewal 
included operations at London Heathrow, 
London Gatwick, Birmingham, London Luton, 
Manchester, and London Stansted airports. It was 
also extended to include Liverpool John Lennon 
Airport. 

Countries

16

Employees

10k

Airports

49

Percentage of  
Menzies total revenue

29%

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Middle East,  
Africa & Asia

Our Middle East, Africa & Asia (MEAA) region was bolstered when we combined forces 
with National Aviation Services. 

Q&A: Charles Wyley, EVP MEAA

How would you summarise 2022? 
Rebuilding was the theme for the MEAA market in 
2022. In the Middle East, we saw growth in both 
passenger and cargo volumes as airline routes 
reopened. Following successful recruitment drives, 
our teams worked hard to provide a safe, secure and 
high-quality service to our airline customers. 

Africa has been slow to recover. We have seen 
an improvement in airline schedules, but flight 
cancellations due to lower passenger volumes offset 
this. It was positive to see a steady increase in cargo 
volumes, however they are yet to reach pre-Covid 
levels. 

Menzies-RAS, our joint venture in Pakistan, secured 
new business with major carriers across eight 
airports and enhanced safety and security standards 
by implementing our global standards and industry 
best practice. 

Have you completed the integration of NAS 
into Menzies?
The addition of NAS has bolstered our regional 
expertise. Customers now have a greater range of 
services in more locations, which opens the door to 
accelerated growth.

We welcomed 4,500 NAS colleagues into Menzies 
and locations have seamlessly transitioned to the 
Menzies brand, systems and processes. It was 
fantastic to see our new colleagues take part in our 

bi-annual MORSE Week, which reinforced the 
training they completed as part of integration 
to ensure everyone provides safe, secure and 
consistent services across our global network. 

Where are you looking to accelerate 
growth this year? 
We remain optimistic about the MEAA market 
having started the year with a series of 
commercial successes and healthy pipeline of 
opportunities. The Middle East is growing with 
many countries investing in airport infrastructure 
in preparation for further expansion. 

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we are 
currently exploring low-cost carrier ground 
handling solutions as part of a Memorandum of 
Understanding with SAL Logistics as the country 
looks to grow aviation. Middle Eastern carriers are 
also expanding into Africa, and we are working 
with several on how we can jointly expand our 
network along with theirs. 

Strong partnerships are becoming increasingly 
important, and we will continue to focus on 
strengthening these while also delivering safe 
and consistent services to our airline and airport 
partners across MEAA.

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

CASE STUDY

Bangalore cargo expansion
A new partnership with Bangalore International 
Airport Limited will significantly expand our cargo 
operation in one of India’s key strategic transport 
hubs. We will manage an import/export facility with 
a capacity of 210k tonnes, with plans to increase the 
capacity by 40k tonnes. We will also build a new 
domestic warehouse on a greenfield site, handling an 
initial 250k tonnes of cargo, with scope to increase 
to 400k tonnes. 

Soaring in South Africa
We marked 15 years in South Africa with game 
changing wins after being awarded a new five-year 
ground handling license. We won new business at 
seven airports with FlySafair and extended our long-
standing partnership with Airlink at seven airports.

An agreement with South Africa Airways to provide 
air cargo services in their Johannesburg, Cape Town 
and Port Elizabeth facilities means we are now based 
in the largest air cargo warehouses in the country. 

Kuwait lands Wizz Air
We won our first Wizz Air contract outside 
of Europe for Wizz Air Abu Dhabi at Kuwait 
International Airport, where we are providing ramp, 
passenger, security and ticketing services for the 
airline’s seven flights per week. This builds on our 
existing relationship with Wizz spanning several 
European cities. 

100 homes for 
Pakistan flood victims

Following the devastating flooding that impacted 
millions of people in Pakistan last year, we helped 
build 100 homes for families in partnership with 
SPARS Group, shareholders of Menzies-RAS, 
our joint venture in Pakistan. The ‘Prime Minister 
Shehbaz Sharif Flood Relief Village’ was built 
in the Tank District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 
(KP) province and includes a school, medical 
clinic, solar plant capable of powering the entire 
village and a tube-well for water. Ninety displaced 
families moved into the two-bedroom homes in 
October as they looked to rebuild their lives.

Countries

25

Employees

11.5k

Airports

61

Percentage of  
Menzies total revenue

9%

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Oceania &  
South East Asia

Our Oceania & South East Asia (OSEA) region performed well in 2023 by diversifying 
and adapting to create a springboard for further growth across the region. 

The sudden re-opening of China at the start of 
January stimulated recovery and we’re expecting 
a further rise in passenger and cargo movements 
across the region in the coming months.

Where will we see accelerated growth  
in OSEA this year? 
We see huge potential for growth in South East 
Asia and China. We opened a regional office 
in Singapore last year to re-align our existing 
operations in Macau, Thailand, and Indonesia, and 
focus on business development opportunities. 

We have secured several contract renewals with 
key customers while also developing a pipeline of 
M&A activity in new and existing countries.

We’re also focused on growing with our 
customers like we have done with the Qantas 
Group at ten airports across Australia and New 
Zealand. This has diversified our ground services 
businesses and we are now handling more narrow 
body, high volume turns.

Q&A: Alistair Reid, EVP OSEA 

Looking back at 2022, what were the 
challenges and opportunities? 
We achieved positive organic growth in 2022 as 
domestic volumes returned to pre-Covid levels in 
Australia and New Zealand, however international 
travel did not rebound at the same pace. Airlines 
increased operations over summer, but unfortunately 
the labour market didn’t follow the same trend.  
From retail to security, immigration and ground 
services, the airport supply chain continued to face 
workforce shortages.

In East Asia there has been a steady recovery 
since mid-2022. Each country slowly relaxed their 
covid requirements which allowed the sector to 
recover in a controlled manner. This resulted in an 
uptick in passenger traffic during summer with a 
corresponding decline in freighter demand.  
We expect cargo volumes overall to retract a little 
throughout 2023 following the decline in consumer 
spending, however the cyclical downturn is expected 
to reverse next year. 

What are your expectations for the year 
ahead? 
Despite the economic headwinds, I’m confident 
2023 will see further recovery and growth across  
our region thanks to our strong customer 
relationships. Recruitment and labour shortages 
continue to be a key challenge that we need to 
overcome by promoting our industry to new talent. 

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

CASE STUDY

Engineering launches in Australia
We won our first engineering contract in Australia 
with LATAM Airlines at Sydney Airport. This was a 
significant milestone in our pursuit to expand our 
line maintenance business into Australia off the 
back of our successful engineering division in New 
Zealand. 

United Airlines partnership flourishes
Our partnership with United Airlines continues 
to flourish with a new ground services contract 
at Brisbane Airport meaning we now provide 
passenger, ramp and air cargo services to the carrier 
in all three of their Australian ports – Brisbane, 
Sydney and Melbourne.

Qantas Group 
expansion

We expanded our partnership with the Qantas 
Group to ten airports across Australia and New 
Zealand. In doing so we diversified our ground 
services business from predominantly wide  
body to high volume, narrow body handling.  
In Melbourne, we started ground services for  
the Group’s low-cost carrier Jetstar, servicing  
370-plus flights per week. This was an extension 
to our domestic Jetstar business that we recently 
gained in Australia.

Auckland lands Air Asia X
We landed new business in Auckland with Air Asia 
X to provide ramp, passenger, cleaning, cargo and 
engineering services for the carrier at New Zealand’s 
largest airport. This was an expansion of our regional 
partnership with the airline. 

Countries

6

Employees

3.6k

Airports

25

Percentage of  
Menzies total revenue

10%

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Air Menzies  
International 

Air Menzies International (AMI) achieved a record year as well as opening four 
new locations in Germany, Pakistan and Canada. 

Q&A: Jonathan Clark, CEO AMI 

How would you summarise the 2022 freight 
forwarding market? 
We experienced a year of two halves as dictated 
by the market, which started out relatively stable 
after experiencing record highs in 2021. This stability 
resulted in AMI performing well in the first half of 
2022, before being impacted by economic and 
geopolitical headwinds, such as rising inflation 
causing a drop in household spending and the war in 
Ukraine disrupting trade flows. 

Declining freight volumes saw airlines realign their 
cargo capacity and reduce air cargo rates to 2019 
levels. Strengthening relationships with our freight 
customers has never been more important as the 
shift in the market has resulted in some customers 
going direct to airlines. 

How did you achieve a record year against 
the backdrop of softening cargo volumes?
Despite the ebbs and flows of 2022, AMI achieved 
a record year with revenue up 10.4% and tonnage 
up 7.1% compared to the previous year. The strong 
performance in the first half of 2022 provided 
enough momentum to cross into 2023 on a high.  

The first quarter of this year has been challenging 
as cargo demand has continued to fall. According 
to IATA, global airfreight tonnage is down by 11% 
compared to 2019 levels. While all our regions 
have been impacted by the difficult trading 
environment to varying degrees, there are positive 
signs for AMI such as global export orders 
increasing. 

What developments can we expect from  
AMI this year? 
After four years of growth, we are using the 
cyclical cargo downturn to complete several IT 
initiatives that will benefit customers, including 
our click2ship online booking platform. We are 
also focused on delivering our ambitious growth 
plans, which include increasing our presence in 
the major global trade lanes. Our innovation and 
expertise in wholesale freight forwarding puts 
us in a strong position to take advantage of new 
opportunities when markets start recovering 
towards the end of this year and into 2024. 

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

CASE STUDY

Strategic growth
We expanded our global network with new branches 
in Frankfurt, Germany, Lahore and Karachi in 
Pakistan and Toronto, Canada. Customers at these 
locations can access our full suite of wholesale 
airfreight services, including door-to-door services 
on global import and export shipments; exports 
with consolidation and Back2Back; and our express 
booking platform Quick2ship. The expansion further 
ensures the reliable movements of freight between 
AMI locations.

Click2ship upgrade
Click2ship, our online booking platform for express 
shipments, was extensively upgraded with increased 
functionality and a new look and feel, allowing 
customers to book express export, import and 
cross trade shipments in five simple steps. The new 
version was launched in the US in late 2022, gaining 
positive feedback from customers, and we are 
currently implementing the upgrade across the rest 
of our network

Charter expertise 
We increased our charter capability by offering 
more charters throughout 2022. As well as being 
commercially successful, it expands the services 
we can offer customers and increases the skills and 
capabilities of our teams in this specialist sector. 

Investing in South 
Africa 

Construction has started on our new wholesale 
freight facility in Johannesburg that is less than 
1km from O. R. Tambo International Airport. 
Colleagues will benefit from modern office and 
warehouse environments, which will be built with 
sustainability in mind. Solar panels will generate 
at least 80% of energy required and we will 
continue to use electric forklifts. The new 47,500 
square-foot warehouse will be 47% bigger than 
the existing facility and we will introduce a fully 
bonded function for import customers. This is 
a significant investment in our Johannesburg 
branch which has been operating since 2002 and 
affirms our commitment to South Africa. 

Countries

11

Employees

447

Locations

27

Percentage of  
Menzies total revenue

17%

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Cargo 
innovation

The cargo warehouse of the future will operate very 
differently from today’s facilities. Think autonomous 
vehicles, robotics and paperless environments.

STRATEGY IN ACTION:
Embracing new technologies 

Strategic link

As part of our plans to transform and fortify our 
position as the leader in the market, we are investing 
in new technology to enhance our cargo operations 
with solutions to improve operational efficiencies, 
enhance workplaces for employees and support our 
sustainability goals. 

In early 2022, we held our first technology showcase 
with tech powerhouses and next generation logistics 
startups pitching their solutions to our expert panel. 
We took forward several proof of concepts and 
after successful trials, we are now rolling out to key 
facilities in our global network that spans  
74 locations. 

We recently selected global technology services 
and consulting company Wipro to provide a cutting-
edge warehouse management system, which will 
improve business efficiencies, employee experience 
and customer service. It also provides a platform to 
easily adopt future systems and solutions. 

 “It has been a very busy 
year on the innovation 
front and we now have 
a portfolio of products 
ready to roll out to 
our key warehouses 
and markets, which 
will make a significant 
difference to our 
employees and our 
customers. Looking 
ahead, we will be 
testing automated 
pallet movers, wildlife 
scanning technology 
and artificial 
intelligence.” 

Air cargo locations globally 

Robert Fordree, EVP Cargo

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Robot recruit
Mimi our autonomous robot from Dexory has been running daily 
inventory checks at our London Heathrow warehouse, providing real-
time data and automating inventory processes to measure, track and 
find goods. The daily checks have saved colleagues 20 hours’ each 
week and a further three hours’ each day that used to be spent on 
locating cargo. Data is being used to monitor volume trends so we can 
make better use of capacity. Robots will be landing in our Los Angeles 
and Melbourne cargo facilities soon. 

Hours saved per week by 
automated inventory 

Hours saved per day  
locating cargo 

20

3

World class cargo handling solution
Wipro’s new warehouse management system will enable end-to-end 
digitalisation of our operations, process standardisation, consistent 
customer service and enhanced employee experience, which is hugely 
important in attracting a new generation of cargo professionals. Our 
teams will be able to utilise an operating system that is more aligned to 
the look and feel of everyday apps, and our customers will benefit from 
increased transparency of cargo status, use of automation to speed 
up processes and improved safety and security procedures. Five cargo 
locations in Romania, New Zealand and Macau, China will be using the 
new system by the end of 2023 with plans to roll it out to the rest of the 
network in 2024. 

Paperless flight packs
Working with KCL Solutions, we can now fully digitalise flight packs. 
Going paperless supports our sustainability targets and enables quick and 
easy access to historical paperwork. Our operations in London Heathrow, 
Sydney and Melbourne have successfully implemented this system.

Maximum capacity 
Speedcargo’s dimensioning and capacity maximisation technology has 
been tested at our Sydney operation. It checks cargo weight on arrival 
for accurate billing and supports colleagues to build pallets that utilise 
all available space. 

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Growing with 
customers

With 500+ customers globally, we have  
cultivated strong working relationships at both 
local and global levels. We are proud to support 
our customers’ growth journeys as their partner  
of choice.

STRATEGY IN ACTION:
Strengthening customer partnerships 

Strategic link

In 2022, we enhanced our key account management 
and collaborated on global partnership agreements 
and strategic projects with our customers. We 
secured new business and a healthy renewal rate 
putting us in a strong position to accelerate growth 
in 2023. 

We offer expertise across all aviation services 
tailored to our customer’s needs and have specialist 
knowledge and experience in entering new markets. 

We added three new countries to our global 
footprint in 2022 - Serbia, Montenegro and Chile, 
and have continued the momentum into 2023 
through acquisitions in Panama and Jamaica and a 
joint venture in Malaysia. 

 “We’re passionate 

about growing with 
our customers and 
collaborating to provide 
flexible and sustainable 
solutions that meet their 
needs. It’s an exciting 
time for Menzies as  
we can now provide  
a greater range of 
services at more 
locations. Our offering 
will continue to be 
enhanced as we 
accelerate growth  
in key markets.” 

Lukasz Skorupa, EVP 
Commercial

Rapid growth in Latin America
It’s full steam ahead for one of our key growth engines, Latin America, 
which experienced rapid expansion in 2022. Growing with existing 
regional and global customers has been central to this accelerated 
growth. Mexico has gone from strength to strength with 10 new airline 
customers, including Delta, Frontier and Aeromexico being onboarded 
in 2022. We started operations in four new airports in Mexico, taking 
our total number of airports to 31. In Colombia, we partnered with five 
new customers, including Avianca at Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla and 
Cali airports to provide freighter cargo handling. We also entered Chile 
via an acquisition of Agunsa Aviation Services.

New airline customers  
in Mexico

Number of airports  
in Mexico

10

31

Qatar Airways
We continue to work closely with Qatar Airways to strengthen our 
global partnership and grow our businesses together. Our air cargo 
relationship has grown from eight locations in 2018 to 27 in 2022 
with all locations consistently achieving gold or platinum monthly 
performance scores. In ground services, we secured multiple contract 
renewals in 2022, including Baghdad, Kuwait, Sydney and Karachi 
airports, and we won additional business in Australia, Pakistan, Mexico 
and the UK.

LOT Polish Airlines 
We nearly doubled the number of airports where we support  
LOT Polish Airlines with ground and air cargo services. The new  
five-year contract covers 11 airports in Europe and North America.  
The integration of additional locations into our existing partnership 
with the carrier was seamlessly facilitated by the signing of a General 
Terms of Agreement (GTA), reflecting the trust and intention to further 
bolster the relationship. The partnership includes knowledge sharing, 
developing efficiency improvement initiatives and integration of 
services support systems. 

Number of airports we work 
with LOT Polish Airlines

11

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Making 
Menzies  
a great place 
to work

The safety and security of our people is our number 
one priority. We are a people business and continue 
to invest in making Menzies a great place to work.

MORSE Week
Each year we hold two global safety and security MORSE Weeks to 
reinvigorate, inspire and influence the behaviours that help create 
a positive safety culture which ultimately prevents incidents. Our 
industry-leading safety principles of Menzies, Operating, Responsibly, 
Safely & Effectively are at the heart of the activities. New in 2022, our 
Menzies 100 Leadership group, including our Executive Management 
Board, were out in airport operations taking part in activities. We saw 
an increase in hazard and near miss reporting on our Swift MORSE 
reporting tool and more people received instant SMART excellences via 
our award-winning SMART app.

Hazard and near  
miss reports 2022

4,166

Training and development
We want everyone at Menzies to unlock their full potential and 
enjoy coming to work. We provide on-the-job training and career 
development. In 2022, our employees completed an average of 54 
hours of training via our learning management system and we achieved 
97% training compliance across the year. Since the launch of our award-
winning, in-house Living Leadership programme in 2020, 1,010 senior 
managers have completed it and more than 70 colleagues participated 
in our new Women in Leadership programme. 

Average learning and 
development hours for  
FTE in 2022

54

STRATEGY IN ACTION:
Investing in our people 

Strategic link

Our global workforce is as diverse as the 60 
countries we operate in. Creating and maintaining 
an inclusive environment which reflects the 
diversity of our customers and the communities 
where we operate is critical to our success. 

We are focused on providing industry leading 
training, best-in-class safety standards and career 
development opportunities at every level to help 
people reach their full potential. Our people are 
at the heart of what we do. Their talent, pride 
and hard work make Menzies the trusted partner 
we are today. 

 “Our people are what makes us 
unique and investing in their 
experience at work is key to 
our success. In 2022, we were 
proud to further enhance the 
focus on operational safety, 
celebrate our colleagues hard 
work and success through the 
We are Menzies Awards and 
continue our journey in making 
sure Menzies is a place where 
everyone can thrive.” 

Juliet Thomson,  
Chief People Officer

We Are Menzies Awards 
Held for the first time in 2022, we invited colleagues to nominate their 
peers for a We Are Menzies Award and we received more than 1,200 
nominations globally. From administering first aid in an emergency and 
stopping work in dangerous situations, to supporting colleagues and 
customers, the wide range of nominations celebrated the commitment 
of our colleagues who live our values every day. German Martinez 
Sierra, based in Aguascalientes, Mexico was the winner of the global 
Safety & Security Award and Employee of the Year for noticing damage 
in an engine as he was loading baggage. He quickly reported what he 
saw and passengers were deplaned so investigations could be done to 
ensure the flight was safe to depart.

Global winners

Safety &  
Security
German 
Martinez Sierra, 
Aguascalientes, 
Mexico 

Agility

Integrity

Cameron  
Barratt,  
Brisbane,  
Australia

Jonathan 
Spading,  
Denver, US

Customer 
Focus 
Priscilla  
Pereira,  
Winnipeg,  
US

Teamwork 

Angelo 
Pugliese,  
Ibiza,  
Spain

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Our 
Sustainability 
Report

Welcome to our sustainability report for 2022, 
which tracks progress against our All In plan for 
a fair a sustainable future. We set our goals and 
commitments in our first sustainability strategy in 
2021. Since then, it has been embraced throughout 
our businesses as we accelerate growth sustainably 
and responsibly, while also creating value for all 
stakeholders. 

As we move forward and our plans mature, our focus is on widening our scope to 
further embed sustainability practices and set more targets across all services and 
areas of our business. Constantly challenging ourselves and improving our plans, 
by setting new targets, adopting new technologies and learnings, and reflecting 
the changing needs of our stakeholders and new climate targets, will help us 
deliver genuine impact and change. 

On the following pages we will share our progress, targets and plans under each 
element of our All In plan, and the governance processes we follow.

 “Our commitment to our All In sustainability plan and 
progressing against our goals and targets has never 
been more important. We will continue to challenge 
ourselves and be ambitious, aiming to lead the way in 
providing the most sustainable, safe, and responsible 
aviation services for all our stakeholders, and work 
towards our climate commitments. I would like to 
thank all our colleagues, customers and partners for 
their contribution, passion and support for our plans, 
driving towards our targets and in helping us create a 
sustainable future for aviation.”

John Geddes, Chief Governance & Sustainability Officer

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All In 

Our material ESG priorities were identified 
in our 2021 materiality assessment and 
stakeholder engagement process. To ensure 
our priorities remain relevant, valid and align 
with stakeholder expectations, and our All In 
plan, to deliver positive change and progress, 
we plan to carry out a materiality refresh and 
updated stakeholder engagement process 
towards the end of 2023. 

•  Ethical business

•  Community support

•  Legally compliant

•  Diversity & inclusion

•  Employee engagement

•  Effect of climate change  

on Menzies

•  Risk management

•  Our environmental impact

•  Human rights

•  Water usage

•  Health & safety

•  Waste management

Menzies was awarded 
a silver medal with 
EcoVadis in 2022 and 
we hope to improve 
on this in 2023.

  s u stainability plan

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Safety
•  Zero injuries
•  Zero damage
•  Improve our safety 

culture

Environment
•  SBTi aligned net-

zero goals
•  Reducing our 
environmental 
impacts

•  Support the 

climate agenda

Ethical
•  Zero tolerance 
to unethical 
behaviour

•  Ethical supply 

chain

•  Fully compliant
•  Cyber secure

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Menzies Aviation Annual Review & Sustainability Report 2022Menzies is proud to be a signatory of the UN Global Compact and our All In plan encapsulates goals and initiatives that directly align with progressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Our focus is on progressing the SDGs that most closely align with our business operations and we provide references to how we are progressing the SDGs throughout this report. We have participated in two UN Accelerator programmes - Target Gender Equality and Climate Ambition Accelerator - and we are actively participating in the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Ambition Accelerator programme focusing on progressing goal 13 Climate Action.We published our first UN Communication on Progress in 2022 providing further information on our commitments and progress to date and will publish our next report mid-2023.Most recently in 2023, we adopted the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) as part of our commitment to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Our support directly correlates with our existing goals and initiatives to improve our business practices and support mechanisms to better empower women and progress gender equity.  
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Environment

Our business has adapted and prospered through seismic changes 
in industry, society and technology over the last 190 years and we 
are fully committed to taking the necessary steps to remain resilient 
into the future. Our focus is on turning any negative impacts our 
business has on climate change and the natural environment, into 
opportunities. By being a responsible corporate citizen, mitigating 
the risks from climate change on our business, and working towards 
a net-zero future, we believe we can remain resilient and play our 
part in delivering a sustainable, net-zero future for aviation.

UN SDG Alignment

OUR ENVIRONMENT GOALS 

Science Based Targets aligned net-zero goals
•  Net-zero across all 3 scopes by 2045.
•  Take an electric first approach to new motorised GSE, refurbish and 
repower existing GSE increasing and seek low emission fuel options.

•  25% of global motorised GSE to be electric by 2025.
•  Collaborate with equipment manufacturers on developing and 

trialling new technology.

•  Reduce energy and fuel use and seek renewable electricity solutions.
•  Engage with partners across our value chain to reduce our scope  

3 emissions.

Reducing our environmental impacts
•  Target zero fuel spillages.
•  Reduce waste and increase recycling.
•  Move to low impact environmental solutions and products across  

all our services.

•  Identify and manage our environmental risks and impacts.

Supporting the climate agenda
•  Support our airline customers and airport partners to reduce 

emissions and provide sustainable solutions and efficient aircraft 
turnarounds.

•  Support good quality environmental projects and initiatives that 

create a positive impact on nature and the environment.

•  Be a sustainability leader.

Our emissions
As required under the Climate Change Act 2008,  
and obligations imposed by the Companies Act 2006 
(Strategic Report and Directors Report) Regulations 
2013, we are mandated to disclose our greenhouse 
gas (GHG) emissions and energy use from our 
operation for the period 1st January 2022 to 31st 
December 2022. Aligned with this, our reporting 
reflects the requirements of the Streamlined Energy  
& Carbon Reporting framework.

Business volumes have continued to return and 
our business has expanded both organically and 
inorganically. This includes the integration of National 
Aviation Services (NAS), following the acquisition 
of Menzies by Agility in August 2022, and Menzies 
subsequent de-listing from the London Stock 
Exchange. Correspondingly, our emissions for 2022 
have increased by approximately 18,000 tonnes CO2e 
compared with 2021. This remains lower than our 
current base year of 2019. 

To reflect the new shape and outlook of our business, 
and in support of our analysis in preparation for 
submitting our science based targets in 2023, we 
will be changing our baseline year to be 2022 going 
forward. It’s unlikely that we will see a return to 2019 
emissions levels partly due to the steps we have 
already been taking action to reduce emissions 
where possible, including increasing the percentage 
of electric and lower emissions ground support 
equipment. 

The largest increases and decreases by country for 
2022 are reflective of the changing size of operations 
in those geographies. 

Quantification and reporting methodology
For the purposes of transparency and to support 
comparisons with previous years, we have reported 
our full global emissions for all entities, join ventures, 
subsidiaries and sister companies including National 
Aviation Services, as well as the figure for all UK 
entities and subsidiaries and joint venture operations, 
for which we have financial control. 

For 2022, we have measured global scope 1 and scope 
2 CO2e emissions, and limited scope 3 CO2e emissions 
(hire care and personal vehicles for business use for 
UK only).

•  Our scope 1 emissions include: direct emissions 

from our operations including the combustion of 
fuel in our ground support equipment and vehicles, 
as well as gas and other fuel consumption for 
operating a facility.

•  Our scope 2 emissions include: indirect emissions 
from electricity purchased for our own use in 
locations of operation and electric vehicles and 
equipment. 

Menzies has used the GHG Protocol Corporate 
Accounting and Reporting Standards and 
reported our emissions in accordance with the UK 
Government’s Environmental Reporting Guidelines.

We have implemented a system called ESG360° to 
enable more efficient data collection and calculation 
of our emissions. For 2022, data for scope 1 and scope 
2 was sourced from our financial accounting systems 
and imported into ESG360° for analysis. Some manual 
data was also gathered from invoices and/or meter 
readings. Going forward, data will be automatically 

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Environment continued

transferred into ESG360° or where data is currently 
manually collated, this will be entered directly into 
ESG360° to improve quality of data collection. Scope 
3 data including supplier data will also be captured 
in ESG360° commencing in 2023. This will help to 
highlight areas of value chain that would benefit from 
reductions in carbon emissions and paves the way for 
us to develop a data-driven net-zero plan.

ESG360° follows with the global methodology set 
by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which supplies the 
world’s most widely used GHG accounting standards. 
Using the guidance provided by the GHG protocol, 
ESG360° measures scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

In tandem, using the emissions factor databases from 
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural 
Affairs (DEFRA) and the International Energy Agency 
(IEA), ESG360° accurately and efficiently carries out 
carbon accounting, allowing us to more accurately 
report and disclose required information.

We report against two intensity measures that are 
common business measures and relevant to our 
business and reflective of the size of operations. 
1.  Gross global scope 1 and 2 emissions in tonnes of 

CO2e per $‘000 revenue.

2. Gross global scope 1 and 2 emissions in tonnes of 

CO2e per FTE (as at 31st December of our financial 
year).

We have increased our FTE numbers significantly over 
the last 12 months in response to business volumes 
returning post-Covid. While we would hope to see 
efficiencies we are making in reducing our emissions 
playing a part in the notable improvement of our FTE 
intensity ratio, we expect the full year effects will be 
more evident in 2024 and this ratio may increase 
again, albeit not to the levels of previous years. 

External Assurance Statement
Menzies Aviation’s 2022 greenhouse gas (GHG) 
emissions have been externally verified to a limited 
level of assurance by ESG360° with verification of 
data obtained from invoices undertaken by Hilltop 

Sustainability, a business sustainability consultancy 
specialising in carbon auditing, footprint calculations, 
reduction plans and strategies with the aim of 
assisting clients on a pathway to net-zero.

Hilltop Sustainability was engaged to verify and 
comment on the data collection, invoice sample and 
quality of the data entry in relation to the invoices 
collected as well as to make recommendations based 
on its findings.

Verification by Hilltop Sustainability has been 
undertaken using standard audit principles. The data 
verified by this exercise was provided by Menzies 
employees, contractors and service providers. It 
covers all operated activities undertaken by Menzies 
during the reporting year. Hilltop Sustainability has 
not been involved in any data collection activities for 
Menzies, their contractors or service providers during 
the reporting period. Hilltop Sustainability confirms 
that there is no conflict of interest arising and this 
verification statement and the assurance process has 
been undertaken independently.

Recommendations for improvements in the data 
collection process provided to Menzies includes 
expanding the size of the invoice sample for the 2023 
audit.

ESG360° completed the conversion factor 
calculations on behalf of Menzies within the ESG360° 
system, according to the methodology outlined in 
‘Quantification and methodology’ section of this 
report on page 21, and can attest to the accuracy of 
those calculations. 

Measures taken to improve energy efficiency
•  We take an ‘electric first’ approach to all new 
Ground Support Equipment (GSE) vehicles, 
wherever possible across our global operations. 
This is more easily achieved in airport locations 
that have or are planning on implementing suitable 
infrastructure and charging points, and especially 
beneficial where those locations provide electricity 
from renewable sources. We added over 198 

electric GSE to our fleet in 2022 with many more 
on order, and expect this to be a larger number in 
2023. 

•  Additionally, we opened our first refurbishment and 
repower workshop in Las Vegas and have begun 
converting diesel baggage tractors to electric. We 
have plans to scale this further in 2023 and beyond. 

•  We have successfully used HVO as a replacement 
for diesel in Sweden for over a year with very 
positive results and in into-plane fuelling hydrant 
trucks in the UK, with approximately 60k litres of 
HVO consumed in 2022. Since the start of 2023, 
we have used HVO in Amsterdam in all non-electric 
motorised GSE. HVO can reduce emissions by 90% 
but it can be challenging to secure a sustainably 
sourced supply. 

•  We have many new hybrid vehicles on order for 
delivery in 2023 as low emissions alternatives 
where fully electric charging cannot be supported 
at a particular airport location. This includes new 
hybrid toilet and water trucks for Australia, which 
contain an electric unit powered by a small diesel 
generator making them more efficient than a diesel 
engine and allowing a simple conversion to electric 
in the future. 

•  Our systems and data are hosted in energy efficient 
carbon neutral data centres, which are planned to 
be run using 100% renewable energy by 2025. 
•  In many locations we have monitored building 

use and taken simple steps to switch off lights or 
equipment when not in use. We are taking this 
a step further in 2023 by investigating ‘smart 
buildings’ solutions to trial. 

•  We have installed solar panels on our office and 
cargo warehouse building in Prague, which we 
are aiming to be operational in H1 2023. Once 
fully operational, it is expected this will reduce our 
emissions across our Prague operations by 25%. 
•  We are building a new cargo building in Bangalore 
that is being designed to achieve the Indian Green 
Building Council Platinum Standard, which is 
expected to be operational early 2024. 

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Environment continued

Targets
As previously reported, we are setting improved 
near-term, mid-term and long-term targets for scope 
1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions aligned with the 
Science Based Targets (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero 
Standard launched during COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 
- albeit with a more ambitious target of reaching 
next zero by 2045 (for scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions). 
By including scope 3 and being wholly based upon 
an absolute reduction approach, these will improve 
upon our existing 2033 target. Our SBTi targets 
will be published more fully following submission 
and approval of our application to the SBTi. We will 
use our 2022 CO2e emissions as our baseline for 
measuring progress going forward. 

Our transition pathway and initiatives designed to 
meet our new targets will be communicated in more 
detail following approval of our new targets by the 
Science Based Targets Initiative. 

A summary of our improved targets follows:
2030  Min. 50% emissions reduction (scope 1 & 2)
2030  Min. 20% emissions reduction (scope 3)
2033  60% emissions reduction total (scope 1 & 2)
2033  30% emissions reduction total (scope 3)
2040  80% emissions reduction total (scope 1 & 2)
2040  60% emissions reduction total (scope 3)
2045  Net-zero

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)
In compliance with Phase 3 of the UK’s ESOS audit 
and reporting requirements, we have engaged 
with an external ESOS Assessor to undertake an 
audit of energy use in buildings, related to our 
processes, and transport. Our report and associated 
recommendations will be submitted to the UK 
Environment Agency ahead of the December 2023 
deadline. 

Collaboration & Engagement
Working with customers, suppliers, airports and other 
partners is vital for us to be able to achieve our own 
targets and support the aviation industry with its net-
zero ambitions and create a sustainable future. 

We collaborate with customers on a variety of 
projects focused on waste, paper reduction, reducing 
emissions, GSE and more. Supporting our customers 
and working together to achieve our goals, and 
create dialogue for change together with airports and 
suppliers, is hugely important. 

PREVIOUS BASELINE  
YEAR 2019

PREVIOUS REPORTING  
YEAR 2021

CURRENT REPORTING  
YEAR 2022

GRAND 
TOTAL

GLOBAL  

UK

(EXCL. UK)

GRAND  
TOTAL

GLOBAL 
(EXCL. UK)

UK

GRAND 
TOTAL

GLOBAL 
(EXCL. UK)

UK

SCOPE 1 & 2 EMISSIONS (TONNES OF CO2E)

We were delighted to Chair the Airport Services 
Association (ASA) Sustainability Committee again in 
2022 and into 2023 to investigate opportunities for 
change with other ASA members. 

SCOPE 1 – COMBUSTION OF 
FOSSIL FUELS

SCOPE 2 – ELECTRICITY 
PURCHASED FOR OWN USE

107,797

13,477

94,321

69,424

5,777

63,647

87,956

6,558

81,398

22,287

1,073

21,214

20,418

383

20,035

19,285

392

18,893

We will only be able to achieve our ambitious net-zero 
goals with the support of the airports we operate 
in and understanding and helping drive their own 
transition plans for renewable energy options, electric 
charging infrastructure, improved waste initiatives and 
other environmental plans.

We are engaging with our suppliers through our 
Third Party Risk Management project, to understand 
how our suppliers can support our ESG goals, reduce 
environmental impacts and emissions through their 
own plans, offer Menzies more sustainable services 
and products, limiting or removing negative impacts 
on the natural environment. These considerations 
will be core to our supplier selection going forward, 
among other assessment criteria. We are completing 
scope 3 analysis for our top supplier population in 
2023 to support our science based targets, and to 
complete risk assessments and fuller due diligence 
for our top 25% of suppliers. We will engage with our 
wider global supplier population fully in 2024. 

We have plans to engage with our stakeholders more 
widely, seeking their input to our ESG materiality 
refresh later in 2023. 

TOTAL

130,085

14,550

115,535

89,842

6,159

83,682

107,241

6,950

100,291

INTENSITY RATIO (SCOPE 1 & 2 EMISSIONS/METRIC)

TONNES OF CO2E/$000 
REVENUE

0.08

0.04

0.09

0.07

0.03

0.07

0.06

0.03

0.07

TONNES OF CO2E/FTE

4.20

2.31

4.68

4.28

2.57

4.50

2.91

1.6

2.58

SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS (TONNES OF CO2E)

HIRE CARS  
& PERSONAL VEHICLES USED 
FOR BUSINESS

Not calculated for 2019

9

9

Not 
calculated

20.81

20.81

Not 
calculated

OFFSETS & NET EMISSIONS (TONNES OF CO2E)

OFFSETS

NET EMISSIONS

(2,233)

127,851

UNDERLYING ENERGY USE (MWH)

(43,000)

46,860

(15,021)

92,220

TOTAL

Not calculated for 2019

370,606

24,245 346,360 434,343

29,308 405,035

1.  The 2022 tonnes of CO2e includes material operations from National Aviation Services in addition 

to Menzies Aviation operations for the first time. 

2.  2022 shall now be our new baseline reporting year going forward for all reporting and in support 

of science based targets.

3.  FTE figures as at 31st December 2022 were used to calculate the tonnes of CO2E intensity ratio. 
4.  We continually improve our data collection and measurement processes, which may from time to 
time result in adjustments being made to previously stated values. We will always disclose where 
an adjustment has taken place and the reason/justification.

5.  Final 2021 Defra conversion factors applied to 2022 data.
6.  2022 Underlying Energy Use based on scope 1 and 2 data only.
7.  Underlying energy use based on total scope 1 and 2. It excludes scope 3 and HVO.

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The new standard has been verified in alignment with 
ISO14001:2015 standard, and is designed to provide a 
robust set of environmental management processes 
and controls with an industry specific focus for 
aviation ground services including ramp, cargo and 
de-icing. We are aiming for certification against the 
new standard by end 2023 and will be rolling it out 
across our global network during 2024.

Buildings, electric batteries and powering electric 
equipment
For our new operating licence in South Africa, we are 
undertaking total fleet replacement (ordered in 2022 
for delivery in 2023) valued at circa $20M. Our electric 
fleet will increase from 14.5% to 38.7% and includes:
•  Baggage tractors.
•  Belt loaders.
•  Driveable passenger steps.

Take delivery in OSEA of 70+ electric or hybrid GSE 
including:
•  Electric lower deck and main deck loaders.
•  Electric pushbacks.
•  Electric belt loaders.
•  Electric baggage tractors.
•  Electric passenger steps.
•  Hybrid lavatory and water trucks.

In Prague, we have installed solar panels on our 
office and cargo warehouse, which we hope to 
be operational in H1 2023. It is expected these will 
generate enough power for us to reduce our emissions 
across our Prague operations by 25%. 

Circularity
We recycle old electrical equipment in the UK and 
US either by donating it to socially responsible 
organisations who can refurbish it to be reused by 
communities, or through recycling organisations who 
can safely dismantle and recycle chips and other 
parts, avoiding landfill wherever possible. 

We take a similar approach to donating and recycling 
any surplus office equipment. Within our ground 
operations, we have looked for ways to refurbish 

and repower diesel baggage tractors to electric. 
In 2022 we opened our first conversion workshop 
in Las Vegas and have refurbished and repowered 
three tug MA-50’s so far. We are working on creating 
new partnerships to expand our refurbishment 
opportunities enabling us to scale up internal and 
external refurbishments over next year.

We have set targets to refurbish and electrify 50 GSE 
assets by end of 2023, scaling up to approximately 
100 assets per year thereafter through a mixture 
of internal workshop conversions and external 
partnerships.

Waste
We are undertaking waste analysis and setting new 
waste targets in 2023 across our global operations, 
for offices and also by service offering. In particular 
relating to cargo, removal of cabin waste, and within 
our lounges. Waste is already a top priority for 
many of our customers and we will continue to work 
closely with them to trial new processes that reduce 
waste and improve disposal and recycling, as well as 
engaging airports to support improvements. 

Our cargo operations utilise various packing materials 
and our priority is to continue to reduce the volume 
of plastic use and waste, increase recycling and 
source materials that minimise any impact on the 
environment. Supplier assessment of cargo packaging 
will be carried out as part of our ESG due diligence 
within our new Third Party Risk Management solution 
in 2023. 

Separately, we already work very closely with airports 
to manage, measure, capture and recycle de-icing 
fluid to ensure efficiencies are maximised and 
processes for waste management are controlled. With 
the support of our de-icing systems, such as Avtura, 
we already analyse our de-icing usage and optimise 
spraying techniques and mixes relative to the different 
temperatures and environments we work in, and 
efficiency in conjunction with water consumption.

 “IATA is proud to support 

Menzies Aviation in their pursuit 
of IEnvA certification. Their 
commitment to sustainable 
aviation sets a strong 
example for the industry and 
demonstrates the positive 
impact of IEnvA certification 
in the aviation ground services 
space. IEnvA provides 
definitive guidance, aligned 
with internationally accepted 
management standards, to 
efficiently and effectively 
address a wide spectrum of 
sustainability matters that face 
the aviation industry today. 
Adopting IEnvA Standards 
allows the ground handler to 
effectively focus its resources 
on improving its environmental 
performance and make use of 
tried and proven best practices. 
IEnvA certification will support 
Menzies Aviation to drive 
sustainability, build trust,  
and deliver positive impact.” 

Marie Owens Thomsen,  
SVP and Chief Economist,  
Sustainability and Economics, IATA

Technology & Data
We’re evolving data capture and analysis across all 
areas of our ESG strategy within our existing systems, 
as well by utilising technology to enable us to track 
and measure new dimensions, create new insights and 
evolve our approach. 

We implemented ESG360° software to support our 
emissions data capture and analysis across scope 
1, 2 and 3. In addition to data capture and carbon 
accounting, we are able to review physical climate 
risk analysis, undertake materiality reviews, scenario 
modelling, create decarbonisation pathways, and gain 
regulatory and legislative insights. 

Our new Third Party Risk Management system will 
further support enhanced supplier ESG due diligence.

Our systems and data are hosted in energy efficient 
carbon neutral data centres, which are planned to be 
run using 100% renewable energy by 2025. 

Employee Travel Survey
We completed our employee travel survey as part of 
our scope 3 analysis for category seven, to understand 
how our employees travel to work and measure 
associated emissions. The results gave us great 
insights and will enable us to look into solutions for 
how we might improve employee journeys and reduce 
associated emissions. 

IATA IEnvA for Ground Handling Service Providers
We have partnered with IATA to implement their 
Environmental Assessment Programme, newly 
released for ground handling service providers.  

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Our Paperless Initiative
We measure our printed paper usage through 
Papercut software across our networks and are 
always seeking ways to reduce paper consumption 
by digitising processes, collaborating with customers 
and other third parties to seek alternative ways 
of working and eliminate paper usage, as well as 
changing behaviours in our own operations. We 
have already made good progress with efficiencies 
in cargo (see page 16) and on the ramp but there is 
more to do. We have set a global reduction target 
of 15% in 2023 based on ‘think before you print’ and 
other existing technology initiatives, and plan to set 
further reduction targets in 2024 and beyond. In 2023 
we plan to appoint local ‘paperless’ owners, provide 
local-level analysis and look more indepth at what is 
being printed at each location, with a view to further 
reducing this and identifying more ways we can 
digitise our processes. 

Water
While our focus has previously been on our GSE, we 
are expanding our impact analysis to the volume of 
water we consume, particularly at a service level for 
de-icing, aircraft cleaning, aircraft toilet and water 
services, as well as in our lounges and own operations, 
where possible. It is our intention to set new efficiency 
targets in 2023 for water consumption. We are also 
working to optimise our fuel farms to reduce water 
and electricity consumption. 

SAF and beyond
The sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) landscape is 
evolving rapidly. As a viable option for use now in 
the near-term, we support our airline customers as 
they seek to secure increased SAF supplies. Our fuel 
teams have already performed SAF refuels both in the 
UK and the US, and we safely handle SAF at our fuel 
farms. We’re also ready to support new technology 
beyond SAF. 

We are a signatory of Clean Skies for Tomorrow 
(CST), which is a coalition of airlines, airports, and oil 
companies that are aligning efforts to accelerate  
SAF to reach a target of 10% global fuel supply by 

2030 (currently 1%). We are participating in the 
workstream to help drive forward SAF technologies. 
We also showed our support in 2022 for the Missions 
Possible Partnerships’ Aviation Transition Strategy, 
aimed at achieving net-zero aviation by 2050.

2022 Deliverables
•  ESG360° solution implemented.
•  198 new electric motorised GSE delivered.
•  New electric GSE equipment types ordered in 

Europe for the first time included:
•  electric main deck loader in Budapest;
•  electric GPUs in Cluj and Otopeni;
•  electric cargo tractors in Budapest and Otopeni;
•  electric lavatory and water trucks in Budapest 

and electric lavatory truck in Oslo; and
•  electric pallet transporter in Gothenburg.

•  Solar panels project in Prague.
•  GSE conversion workshop opened in Las Vegas.
•  Reducing paper in our cargo operations, and in  

our ground operations through technology.

•  Partnership with Loop in Los Angeles LAX trialled 

new EV vans and implemented EV charging. 

•  Chaired the ASA Sustainability Committee.

2023 Priorities
•  Complete our phase 3 ESOS audit.
•  Approved SBTs and improved net-zero target.
•  New waste and water targets.
•  Implement new IATA IEnvA standard. 
•  15% paper reduction target.
•  Top suppliers complete scope 3 analysis, 

environmental risk assessment and due diligence.

•  New cargo wrap solutions to lower  

environmental impacts and increase recycling.

•  Scale HVO use in GSE.
•  Expand and scale our refurbish and repowering  

of GSE assets.

•  Global employee travel survey completed Q1.
•  Our electric GSE fleet has already increased by  
124 assets so far in 2023, and continues to grow.

•  25% of global motorised GSE to be electric by 

2025.

CASE STUDY

Rewilding the Scottish 
Highlands

We are passionate about protecting the natural environment we live  
in, particularly within the geographies we operate. In recognition of 
this, we are delighted to continue our corporate partnership with  
Trees for Life, by supporting their rewilding efforts and by making 
donations through our Menzies Aviation Corporate Grove, to plant 
native trees in the Scottish Highlands. 

We are looking forward to supporting Trees for Life further in 2023 
by volunteering at their Rewilding Centre in Dundreggan, where Trees 
for Life have been focusing rewilding efforts since 2008. By planting 
trees to create a new wild forest, allowing the forest to recover 
through natural regeneration and testing new tree growing and land 
management techniques, the land is now recovering from centuries 
of grazing and browsing by sheep, goats, cattle and deer. Over 4,000 
species of plants and animals are found at Dundreggan, including many 
rare and protected species. 

We have exciting plans for 2023 to greatly expand our support for  
the natural environment and rewilding into more geographies where 
we operate.

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globally in 2022

28m

Equivalent in trees

2,990

Target to reduce  
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Safety 

The safety and security of our operations and our people 
is our top priority, reflected in our purpose, our values 
and our strategy for sustainable growth. 

UN SDG Alignment

OUR SAFETY GOALS 

Zero injuries
Improve and increase hazards 
and near miss reporting by 
introducing frictionless reporting 
and loss time reporting.

Zero damage
Invest in technology to improve 
safety such as SmartDrive and 
immersive 360 degree videos. 
Engage employees through 
gamification and continually 
promote our Golden Rules.

Improve our safety culture
Continue to embed the 
MORSE code and charter 
across our network to create a 
positive safety culture. Focus 
on mentoring, improving 
supervision and oversight, and 
managing risk training.

We aim to have the best safety culture in the 
industry by delivering the highest health, safety 
and security risk standards everywhere we operate. 
We want our people to feel safe in their working 
environment by providing the training and tools 
required to do their job safely and securely. We want 
our customers to trust Menzies to deliver the safest 
and most reliable services and to know that we are 
committed to continually evolving and embedding 
our safety and security practices. 

Our Safety Management Systems include our 
policies, procedures, training and manuals,  
designed to the highest industry best practices  
and standards for safety management, occupational 
health, security, training and quality assurance.  
We hold certifications in some operational locations 
for ISO14001 and ISO45001, however, our focus 
is on aligning with industry certification and 
standardisation.

We successfully renewed our IATA Safety Audit for 
Ground Operations (ISAGO) registration, entailing a 
audit of all central policies, procedures, training and 
quality management. Our most recent ISAGO HQ 
audit was successfully completed in Q1 2023 with 
zero findings. 

We also maintained our IATA Ground Handling 
Partner (GHP) and IATA Strategic Partnerships 
membership that provides a platform to contribute 
to the development of solutions that impact safety 
and damage reduction, while promoting efficiency 
improvements initiatives as well as strengthen 
relationships with key industry stakeholders.

CASE STUDY

Managing risk  
from within 

To address insider threat risk within our business 
policies, processes and controls, we undergo an 
annual assessment of our Insider Risk Mitigation 
Framework by the National Protective Security 
Authority (NPSA), part of the UK’s MI5 security 
service. The assessment is based on the NPSA 
Personnel Security Maturity Model, focussing 
on seven core elements of effective personnel 
security processes:
•  Leadership and Governance.
•  Insider Risk Assessment.
•  Employment Screening.
•  Ongoing Personnel Security.
•  Monitoring and Assessment of Employees.
•  Investigation and Disciplinary Practices 

(Response).

•  Security Culture and Behaviour Change.

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Safety continued

In 2022, we began the roll out of all safety and 
security standards and processes to our former 
NAS locations, starting with Abidjan on the Ivory 
Coast, as part of the integration of our business 
and operations. The NAS teams embraced the new 
ways of working and standards. We look forward 
to further integrating and embedding our safety 
and assurance processes within all new operations 
providing the highest standards consistently across 
all new global operations. 

We shared new wellbeing learning modules, hints, 
tips and internal online wellbeing resources for 
World Wellbeing Week. 

Our European de-icing leads held a two-day 
workshop in Bucharest, Romania where the 
team covered safety and quality topics including 
amendments and updates to the Ground De-
icing /Anti-icing Manual (GDAM) following SAE 
International Global De-icing Standard changes. New 
innovations and technology in the industry were also 
reviewed including new de-icing rig technology, fluid 
efficiencies and recycling. 

Safety Culture
Our M.O.R.S.E. (Menzies Operating Responsibly, 
Safely and Effectively) Code and Charter, along with 
our Golden Rules, encapsulates our safety culture 
and how we embed it in everything we do, that sets 
us apart from competitors. The M.O.R.S.E. code sets 
the way we work every-day, ensuring our airline 
customers and the traveling public can trust every 
journey they take. It is embedded throughout our 
business, from our induction programmes, initial and 
refresher training, safety, security and environmental 
promotions, incorporated onto uniforms, and 
features regularly in our internal communications. 

Our teams hold monthly M.O.R.S.E. forums to 
track progress, highlight key operational risks and 
emerging trends, review incidents and learnings, 
and identify improvement opportunities to reduce 
accidents and incidents.

In our recent employee engagement survey, 80% of 
responses to every safety question were positive, 
demonstrating not only our employees’ commitment 
to safety, but also our ability as an employer to drive 
a culture of safety.

Our popular M.O.R.S.E. events held each year 
across our global operations, shine a light on 
the commitment to safety and security that our 
teams embody every day and recognise their 
achievements.

Quality and Assurance
We measure quality assurance and safety success 
through KPIs and internal audits. 
•  Menzies ‘8 Pillar’ programme prescribes the 

minimum standards that are expected throughout 
our operations, against which we measure each 
station location. 

•  Our ‘5 Star’ Programme allows us to audit on what 
matters most and drives improved compliance 
behaviour. 

Both programmes provide the necessary oversight 
and assurance that operational risks are adequately 
managed, and continuous improvement is achieved. 

In 2022, our operations were also subject to 1,058 
external audits, an increase from 828 external audits 
in 2021.

Employee Personal Injury Rate
(per 100 FTEs) 

0.096

External audits  
in 2022 

1,058

Operational training 
compliance 

97%

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Safety continued

Strategy
We have a 3 x D strategy to help drive continual 
improvement. 
•  Diagnose areas that can be improved; 
•  Design to simplify, motivate and give people the 

2023 Priorities:
A key area of focus will be to simplify and automate 
KPIs to create transparency and improved insights 
for our managers. Examples include:
•  Benchmarking Personal Injuries and Aircraft 

ability to succeed; and 

•  Deliver in collaboration with stakeholders.

This strategy has contributed to the implementation 
of innovative tools such as: 
1.  The SMART app, an award-winning technology, 

enables quick inspection of tasks tailored to aircraft 
type and customer requirements, and allows us to 
recognise when people go above and beyond.

2. The SmartDrive program, which includes AI 
cameras and encourages responsible driving.
3. Gamification, a form of micro-learning, which 

enables higher recall for important safety messages 
in a fun and engaging way.

4. Frictionless reporting allows anyone to report a 

hazard swiftly on any mobile device and feedback 
is provided on their report.

5. We have also implemented our Tow Team Warning 
System with a connected wing walker to pushback 
driver alert systems to improve pushback safety.

Ground Damage using incidents rates, enabling 
our managers to rank their performance against 
regional and global rates and provide their 
existing and prospective customers with real-time 
performance.  

•  Real-time Training Dashboard, enabling managers 

to better plan training resources and ensure 
optimum levels of skilled labour to meet growth 
demands now and into the future, giving our 
customers confidence and ensuring quality of 
service. 

•  Improving analysis and correlation of leading 
and lagging indicators to give early warning 
notifications and help managers stay on track, 
and provide a safe a secure service. 

•  Link incidents in M.O.R.S.E. with our Enterprise 
Risk Management system to always show the 
current more dynamic Operational Risk Register, 
assisting management teams to focus on areas 
that matter most.

•  Reviewing and testing our Crisis Management 

Centre processes and tools.  

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People

Our people are at the heart of our business and our 
success. We are committed to creating a diverse and 
inclusive culture where our employees can thrive.  
We want to them to experience equity of opportunity, 
to feel respected and supported to learn and develop, 
and to be able to be themselves. Like many companies 
and societies, we can always do better but we are 
committed to improving our policies, practices and 
employee experiences that will benefit all our people, 
our business, and support our future success and 
sustainable growth. 

We celebrate the great work and commitment of our 
employees with long term service awards as well as  
our annual We Are Menzies Awards. Read more on 
page 18.

OUR PEOPLE GOALS 

Optimise training
Focus on the safety and wellness 
of our people.

Increase development
Retain talent and develop our 
people at all levels with a focus 
on our leadership.

Improve engagement
Enhance the way we 
communicate with our people, 
especially frontline colleagues.

Diverse & balanced workforce
Support our diversity forums to 
inform positive change across 
the business.

Equity for All 
Our executive led Equity Inclusion and Belonging 
(EIB) working group was created to encourage 
conversation and participation from employees at 
all levels to understand what issues in this area are 
most important to employees, and to help identify 
changes and initiatives we can implement to 
progress positive change for all. The group applies 
an equity and inclusion lens to two main focus areas 
that correlate to our business risks and strategy for 
sustainable growth:
•  Talent attraction and recruitment
•  Retention and development

We have since expanded our priorities to include 
engaging young people and supporting refugees.

In 2022, we were delighted to welcome a guest 
speaker to our EIB group from Deloitte, sharing their 
experience and learnings as a diversity and inclusion 
champion. We look forward to learning from and 
sharing with more partners and peers, to advance 
our own equity, diversity and inclusion journey. 

A survey of EIB group participants further identified 
the following topics for Menzies to consider when 
developing our plans under the two focus areas above:
•  Gender
•  Family friendliness
•  Disability
•  Race

Our Code of Conduct and our suite of People 
policies cover many areas of human rights, employee 
rights and more. Our Equality Diversity & Inclusion 
Policy sets out our commitments and expectations 
and the accompanying online training is mandatory 
for all employees globally. We have also launched 
allyship and unconscious bias training. 

CASE STUDY

Allyship In Menzies 

With 73% of our workforce being men, our allyship 
campaign aims to inspire and empower colleagues 
to show up as allies at work and drive positive 
change through supporting women and other 
under-represented minorities. Our campaign will 
continue throughout 2023 to help make Menzies a 
more inclusive, diverse and equitable organisation 
which will benefit everyone. We have started by 
educating colleagues on what allyship means and 
helping them understand what they can do to 
empower and support colleagues every day. 

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People continued

We started tracking diversity metrics to enhance 
our recruitment and talent management processes 
and we are setting new targets beyond gender to be 
able to better tracker and measure our progress on 
our other priorities and inclusivity more generally. 

Gender Equity
Following our participation in the UN Target Gender 
Equality accelerator programme in 2022, we 
recently became a signatory of the UN Women’s 
Empowerment Principles, further demonstrating 
our commitment to advancing gender equity and 
inclusivity and the UN Sustainable Development 
Goals within our operations and by extension, in the 
wider societies of the geographies we operate. 

Our Women in Leadership programme was 
launched in Q4 2021, with over 70 participants 
having completed the programme so far and more 
cohorts planned. 

Supporting refugees
We were pleased to become a member of Tent in 
December 2022. Tent connects businesses with 
government agencies and organisations who work 
with people that have refugee status. With the 
support of Tent, we are setting up recruitment 
programmes and partnerships in Europe, UK, the US 
and Canada to recruit and support refugees into our 
business. We look forward to sharing our first targets 
with Tent in June. 

During 2022, we successfully onboarded around 20 
Ukrainian workers within our European operations 
who were displaced due to the conflict in Ukraine, 
providing them with additional support including 
local language training, to help them integrate into 
local communities and the workplace. Read more on 
page 35.

Supporting our veterans
We are proud to employee a large number of 
veterans across our global operations, with over 
1,000 in Europe and well over 4,000 in our Americas 
region. As well as supporting the recruitment of 
ex-forces employees, we also support those who are 
active in a reserve capacity. 

In recognition of our continued support of veterans 
we were delighted to be presented with our 
silver award under the Armed Forces Employer 
Recognition Scheme, one of the highest accolades 
for supporting the defence community in the United 
Kingdom. We look forward to continuing our journey 
towards achieving the gold standard. 

Inspiring the next generation
Each year, we provide a number of internship and 
apprenticeship opportunities for young people 
across our business in a variety of roles and areas of 
expertise. As well as attracting new talent, we hope 
to inspire a new generation of aviation professionals. 
We are doing this through new partnerships with 
universities and we have great plans to expand our 
youth engagement in 2023. 

 “On behalf of Menzies Aviation, I am proud to officially 
show our commitment to advocating and progressing 
gender equality by signing the UN Women’s Empowerment 
Principles. We operate in a historically male dominated 
industry but I believe by empowering women and creating 
equity through opportunity, recognition and allyship, we 
can play our part in advancing positive societal change and 
creating a thriving and inclusive workplace where everyone 
can reach their full potential.” 

Philipp Joeinig, CEO

Plans for 2023: 
•  Launch our equity, diversity and inclusion pulse survey for our senior 

leadership population with the aim of expanding this to a wider employee 
population later in 2023. 

•  Unconscious bias training will be mandatory for anyone involved in 

recruitment or promotion decisions within Menzies. 

•  Alumni from our Women in Leadership programme will be offered enhanced 

development training, to support the acceleration of their careers.

•  Continue to develop our allyship campaign.
•  Set new measures and goals globally and locally beyond gender. 
•  Develop recruitment, support mechanisms and partnerships for our refugee 

onboarding programme.

•  Develop our aviation youth education and awareness campaign and 

community engagement.

•  Develop and evolve our people and family friendly policies.
•  Develop our Fair Labour programme by reviewing and enhancing policies and 

practices for our own employees and for within our supply chains.

•  Develop the Menzies’ approach to the signature traits of inclusive leadership 

and weave into our Living Leadership programme from late 2023. 

•  Global employee engagement survey undertaken in Q1 2023.

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People continued

Our statement is published in both UK and 
Australian modern slavery statement registers, 
in compliance with the UK Modern Slavery 
Act 2015 and Australian Modern Slavery Act 
(Commonwealth).

In 2023, we are reviewing our Fair Labour 
Programme and modern slavery and human rights 
risks. This will include updating our existing Code of 
Conduct, Anti-Slavery and Anti-Human Trafficking 
Policy, and Fair Labour policies, training and tracking 
of measures and internal audits, to be completed 
in 2023. Alongside this, our new third party risk 
management system enables us to undertake more 
robust and auditable risks assessment of all our 
supplier population, and to undertake appropriate 
supplier due diligence assessing their approach to 
human rights, labour rights and modern slavery 
policies and controls. With this information, we can 
ensure the suppliers we work with are adhering to 
the standards we expect from them, aligned with 
our Third Party Code of Conduct.

Respect for Human Rights
As a signatory of the UN Global Compact, we fully 
support the United Nations Guiding Principles on 
Business and Human Rights and the International 
Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental 
Principles and Rights at Work. 

We take a zero-tolerance approach to breaches of 
human rights and all forms of modern slavery and 
human trafficking, and respect the right to freedom 
of association and fair work and wages for our 
employees.

Our suppliers are expected to adhere to Menzies 
Third Party Code of Conduct and we incorporate 
contractual provisions relating to this, as well as 
specific clauses relating to modern slavery and other 
ethical conduct and legislation, such as anti-bribery.

No instances of modern slavery were identified in 
our own operations or supply chain during 2022.

We publish an annual statement outlining Menzies’ 
response and steps taken to address modern 
slavery and human trafficking risks and ensuring 
that any form of slavery including forced labour 
bonded labour, child labour, and human trafficking 
do not occur anywhere in our global operations, 
or our supply chain. Our latest annual Anti-Slavery 
and Human Trafficking Statement is available on 
our website at menziesaviation.com/anti-slavery-
statement 

Aligned with the International Air 
Transport Association’s 25 by 2025 
industry-wide campaign aimed at 
shifting key diversity and inclusion 
metrics across the aviation industry  
by 25%, or up to a minimum of 25%  
by 2025, we have committed to: 

•   Increase the proportion of females  
in our senior leadership population  
to at least 25% by 2025.

•   Increase the proportion of females  
in our middle leadership population 
to at least 40% by 2033. 

Females in our  
global population 

Females in our  
senior leadership 

27%

19%

Females in our  
middle leadership

Females on our 
Executive Management 
team and Board 

31%

20%

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Ethics 

Ensuring we conduct ourselves and our business activities 
ethically at all times, keeps our business safe, our people safe 
and helps us play our part in supporting a fair and just society 
and creating an ethical culture. As such, Ethics is a core pillar 
of our All In plan. 

Our approach to ethical conduct is underpinned by our values, 
behaviours and the policies, training, controls and governance 
we abide by throughout our global operations. Menzies ethical 
approach is being adopted by National Aviation Services 
(NAS) as a key part of the business integration. 

Anti-Bribery 
& Anti-
Corruption

Anti-Trust & 
Competition

Fraud

Financial 
Integrity

Speak Up

Data Privacy 
& Data 
Protection 
incl. GDPR

Cyber 
Security

Our ethics  
core pillars

Conflicts of 
Interest

Gifts & 
Hospitality

Code of 
Conduct

Third 
Party Risk 
Management

UN SDG Alignment

Anti-Modern 
Slavery & 
Fair Labour

Sanctions 
Compliance

Third Party 
Code of 
Conduct

OUR ETHICAL GOALS 

Anti-bribery and corruption
Zero tolerance for all forms of bribery and corruption within our 
business and supply chains.

Fully compliant
Operating in full compliance with applicable legislation, 
ensuring strong ethical and governance practices are up to 
date, relevant and adhered to.

Cyber security
Ensuring continuous improvement of the confidentiality, 
integrity and availability of Menzies systems, data and services.

Ethical supply chain
Ensuring sustainable and ethical supply chains and partnerships 
everywhere we operate.

Speak Up
Our confidential and independent Speak Up hotline 
enables employees and third parties to report any 
instances of unethical conduct via phone or online, 
in their local language, and without fear of reprisal. 
All reports are treated seriously, confidentially and 
investigated appropriately in line with published 
procedures and service levels. We can communicate 
confidentially with reporters via the SpeakUp platform 
without compromising anonymity where this should 
be preserved. All reporters are also provided with a 
recorded outcome and resolution to their report. 

Cyber Security
The potential risk from ‘Cyber’ continues to grow. 
As part of a critical supply chain, depended upon 
by our customers and the wider public, we take this 
seriously ensuring we have appropriate controls 
in place. A risk-based approach is followed to 
understand the continually changing threats and 
vulnerabilities that could impact what we do. 
This drives the continual investment in our cyber 

security programme with the key aims of, keeping 
the information we are trusted with secure and 
our business processes robust. Our formal cyber 
programme follows a best practice framework 
designed to mitigate the risks to an appropriate level.

During 2022 we improved the training, awareness 
and cyber reporting for our employees, rolled out 
new technologies to improve the management of 
vulnerabilities and to proactively detect malicious 
activity in our IT environment. This approach to 
managing the business risk from cyber will drive the 
continuous improvement of our cyber security risk 
posture.

Tax Strategy
As a good corporate citizen, Menzies is committed 
to being a responsible and transparent tax payer, 
paying the right amount of tax in accordance with 
the laws and regulations of the countries in which 
we operate.

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Ethics continued

TRACE is a non-profit business association 
dedicated to anti-bribery, compliance and 
good governance. TRACE helps multinational 
companies conduct business ethically and 
in compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt 
Practices Act, UK Bribery Act and other similar 
anti-bribery legislation. 

www.traceinternational.org

We monitor and investigate any and all reports 
or suggestions of corruption within our 
operations. We took action on one localised 
report of unethical business practices in 2022. 

assessments and due diligence across ESG criteria, 
and will support our scope 3 emissions analysis 
and progress towards achieving new science based 
emissions reduction targets. 

We already build contractual provisions for ethical 
and compliance topics such as modern slavery and 
anti-bribery and anti-corruption into our contractual 
arrangements, along with our Third Party Code 
of Conduct, but our new system and procedures 
significantly enhance our supplier due diligence 
and onboarding processes and will help progress a 
number or priority goals and metrics in our  
All In plan. 

areas covered in our All In plan such as safety and 
environment. More detailed training also exists for 
these topics. 

We also have a robust due diligence process for 
onboarding new joint venture partners and engage 
external expertise to undertake due diligence on our 
behalf, where required. 

Our new Third Party Risk Management system will 
support onboarding all types of third party business 
partners in future. 

We communicate in a number of ways including 
e-learning, ‘face to face’ training, newsletters and 
alert updates, through Microsoft Teams, posters, 
and more. We always look to improve engagement, 
check awareness and communication, and ensure 
clear messages come from our executive and senior 
leadership teams, setting the tone and leading by 
example. 

Zero tolerance bribery and corruption
We have been a member of TRACE for many years, 
supporting our zero-tolerance approach to bribery 
and corruption. We use TRACE best practices, training 
courses and risk matrix data to support our own 
internal processes, including providing regular specialist 
training on bribery, corruption, fraud and conflicts of 
interest for higher risk employee groups and senior 
employees, including those at executive level. 

Policies, training and communication
Our Code of Conduct lays the foundation for all  
full suite of ethics and compliance-related policies.  
We regular review our policies and aim to make 
them understandable and accessible, translating 
them into multiple languages aligned to the 
geographies we operate in. 

We communicate policies, learning, guidance and 
regular updates for every area of our ethics wheel, 
as well as our wider All In plan. 

Due diligence & Business Partner Engagement
With support from Deloitte, we implemented a new 
Third Party Risk Management system that utilises 
third party database information as well as data 
provided directly from our supplier population.  
Our new system, procedures and policies, including 
an updated Third Party Risk Management policy, are 
being rolled out globally. The initial focus is on our 
global supplier population and enables us to better 
engage with our suppliers, undertake auditable risk 

The level and method of learning varies by role 
and reaches every level of our business including 
our executive teams, on topics including but not 
limited to, Code of Conduct, anti-bribery and anti-
corruption, modern slavery and human trafficking, 
conflicts of interest, cyber security, data protection 
and privacy. Our Code of Conduct learning is 
undertaken by every new employee globally and all 
existing employees on a regular basis, and provides 
a basic awareness of all the topics, as well as other 

2022 deliverables
•  Rolled out Speak Up to all NAS locations.
•  Completed an independent evaluation of our 

global sanctions programme.
•  New cyber training rolled out.
•  New Third Party Risk Management system and 

ESG due diligence.

•  Review of our fair labour and modern slavery 

programme.

2023 priorities
•  Adopt recommendations to further improve our 

global sanctions programme. 

•  Roll out improvements and measures for our fair 
labour and modern slavery programme and new 
KPIs.

•  Fully embed our Third Party Risk Management 

system for suppliers and expand scope to other 
business. 

•  Renew and our Code of Conduct learning and 

communications partners. 

CASE STUDY

Developing an 
ethical culture 

By making compliance part of our everyday 
conversations and working practices in a 
real way, we aim to increase awareness, 
understanding and practical application at all 
levels. Our Code of Conduct and training gives 
every employee knowledge of how to navigate 
difficult situations, associated legal and ethical 
implications, and guidance on making the right 
decisions. Our specialised policies, processes 
and training further support employees whose 
roles expose them to greater risk areas, for 
example, bribery, corruption, fraud, fair labour, 
data protection and more. At the highest level, 
our ethical approach is shaped by the strong 
example set my our most senior leaders, and 
the expectations they have for our business, 
employees and partnerships. All of these 
actions have helped to develop our ethical 
culture, and its importance is acknowledged 
by the inclusion of the Ethical pillar in our All 
In plan, our third party commitments, and 
partnerships.

We gauge and measure this through:
•   Employee engagement and requests  

for guidance received from across our  
global business

•   Queries received via SpeakUp and 

improvements we identify

•  Training compliance
•  Due diligence
•  Internal and external audits

100%

of suppliers assessed for 
modern slavery risk in 2023

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Supporting our 
communities

Supporting the communities where we operate and where our 
people live in many parts of the world is important to us. It is a key 
part of our All In plan for a fair and sustainable future where we 
strive to make a difference by supporting causes that have a positive 
impact on communities, big and small. Through this support we 
hope to benefit local economies, reduce climate impacts, improve 
education, health and wellbeing, and reduce inequalities. We don’t 
donate money to political campaigns or causes. 

Menzies contributed over USD 360k in 2022 towards 
community projects, charities and supporting local 
fundraising by our teams. This consisted of over  
USD 217k in donations and contributions and 
further GBP 116k delivering finance to low-carbon 
sustainable development projects.

We’re excited about developing existing and new 
partnerships in 2023 and already pleased to have 
been supporting our teams into 2023 with their own 
fundraising! 

Donations & Partnerships 
Through our JMM Community Fund, we encourage 
our employees to request donations towards their 
own charitable fundraising or local community 
groups that matter to them. This enables us to 
support a wide spectrum of charities and  
community groups around the globe.

Building Communities in Pakistan 

Contributions to communities, 
charities and local fundraising 
activities in 2022

US$ 217k

In response to the devastating flooding that 
impacted millions of people, Menzies Aviation and 
SPARS Group, shareholders of Menzies Aviation’s 
joint venture in Pakistan, Menzies-RAS, partnered 
to build 100 homes in Pakistan. The 100-home 
‘Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Flood Relief Village’ 
has been built in the Tank district of the Khyber 
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.

Finance delivered to 
low-carbon sustainable 
development projects

£116k

A school and medical clinic have also been built 
within the village, and a solar plant capable of 
powering the entire village and a tube-well for water 
has also been installed. Nine thousand saplings of 
local indigenous trees were planted around the 
construction site to complete the village.

Continued Valued Partnerships
We donated money to a number of charities and 
partners across the globe and continued existing 
partnerships. We have a selected a few to highlight 
as follows: 

We continued our corporate partnership with Trees 
for Life in the UK, and are excited to expand our 
support with Trees for Life in 2023. 

We supported Social Bite’s Festival of Kindness 
for a second year, including corporate sponsorship 
of their Giving Tree in Edinburgh, UK and through 
volunteering. The campaign supports homeless 
people and those in poverty with food and basic 
supplies during the festive period and throughout 
winter, as well as helping to provide accommodation 
for those in need. With support of our parent 
company, Agility, we also donated funding towards 
their Jobs First Internal Training programme.  
This supports people with a background in 
homelessness, offering a shorter-term intervention 
to begin their journey back to employment. 

In Tanzania, we provided additional funding for  
three projects with Born to Learn including: a new 
music classroom, equipment and instruments; 
additional computer and multimedia equipment,  
wi-fi installation and subscription; and new bathroom 
facilities suitable for younger children. 

In Cote d’Ivoire, we provided funding towards the 
rebuild and refurbishment of classrooms in l’Ecole 
Primaire Publique school. This will provide the 
students with a healthier and more comfortable 
environment that will better support their learning. 

In St Maarten, Player Development SXM provides 
children with a safe environment where they can 
have fun, learn basic life lessons, and receive 
educational support. We donated supermarket 
vouchers and clothing vouchers for 11 families 
currently using the centre who require additional 
financial support. 

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Supporting our 
communities continued

Supporting Refugees
With more and more refugees being forcibly 
displaced for longer periods of time. We understand 
some of the barriers people face entering the 
workforce and believe that as a global employer we 
have a role to play in helping refugees and displaced 
people integrate economically in their new host 
communities.

Menzies Aviation became a member of The Tent 
Partnership for Refugees in December 2022.  
Tent connects businesses with government  
agencies and organisations who work with people 
that have refugee status. With the support of Tent 
and these organisations, we are at the early stages 
of developing our first targets and in setting up 
recruitment programmes and partnerships in Europe 
and the US to recruit and support refugees into our 
business. 

During 2022 we provided assistance to Ukrainian 
refugees including employing around 20 refugees at 
operations in Prague and London. 

•  Built a dedicated website with our recruitment 
system partners eArcu to advertise jobs for 
Ukrainian refugees seeking employment.
•  Contacted all Ukrainian airports and ground 

handling companies with the offer of jobs for their 
employees within our network.

•  Funded local language courses for refugees who 

joined Menzies.

•  Helped new employees and their families find 

accommodation.

Low-Carbon Sustainable Development Projects
We continued our partnership with Climate Impact 
Partners in 2022, by delivering finance to support 
low-carbon sustainable development projects. The 
projects we support are located in geographies we 
operate in, engaging local communities who are 
instrumental to the running of each project.

This also means that these communities benefit from 
the positive social impacts the projects deliver, such 
as job creation, improved livelihoods, water quality 
improvements, access to affordable and reliable 
energy, and improved infrastructure.

Benefitting local communities and supporting them 
in their own transition to low-carbon societies is our 
main aim, but through our support we were able to 
compensate for 15,021 tonnes of our 2022 global  
CO2 emissions. Our approach will always be to focus 
on reducing our own operational emissions wherever 
possible.

Climate Impact Partners is an award-winning 
project developer with regular due diligence 
activities guided by their expertise – ensuring 
they only work with projects that maintain high 
standards on the ground. 

The projects we supported include: 

Ghana: Community Reforestation

USA: Albany Water 

Located in New York state, the Albany Water 
Forestland provides an important buffer for the 
water supply, naturally regulating run-off and 
filtering groundwater that flows into the reservoirs 
and their tributaries. The lands have outstanding 
habitat features, including wetlands, large blocks 
of unfragmented forest habitat, open water, vernal 
pools, and successional forest. 

•  SDG13 Climate Action: The project delivers 

emissions reductions by maintaining forest carbon 
stocks above the short-rotation clearcutting 
typical in this locality.

•  SDG6 Clean Water and Sanitation: The project 
permanently protects a total of 6,400 acres of 
land and water, which supplies residents and 
businesses with 6.6 billion gallons of water 
annually.

•  SDG 15 Life on Land: The Alcove Reservoir was 
one of the early sites for the reintroduction of 
bald eagles in New York, and there are a number 
of active nest sites on the properties. The 
reservoirs also provide outstanding habitat for 
migrating waterfowl.

•  SDG 14 Life Below Water: The protected area 

provides important headwater stream habitat for 
fish, amphibians and other aquatic species.

The project is restoring degraded forest reserves in 
Ghana with teak, indigenous trees and natural forest 
in riparian buffer zones, following the principles and 
criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). 
The project works closely with local farmers some 
of who are employed by the project and others 
are able to grow crops, via intercropping, within 
the reforested area, benefitting from the improved 
soil conditions. As a grouped project, the aim is 
to expand around 1,000 hectares per year, adding 
new project areas and improving more livelihoods 
through reforestation.

The SDG contributions have been indicatively 
measured, but need to be confirmed:
•  SDG 13 Climate Action: Delivering emissions 

removals.

•  SDG 2 Zero Hunger: Implements resilient 

agricultural practices that increase productivity, 
help maintain ecosystems, strengthen adaptation 
to climate change, and progressively improve land 
and soil quality.

•  SDG 5 Gender Equality: 40% of jobs created to be 
filled by women and 25% of the available areas for 
intercropping to be allocated to female farmers.

•  SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation: Tree 

planting, particularly in the land near waterways, 
contributes to the improvement of the water 
catchment areas by improving the supply, 
consistency and quality of the water available. 
Additionally, sanitary infrastructure and boreholes 
have been installed in the local village of Kotaa.
•  SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth: Over 
1,000 jobs have been created, and more than 
6,000 hectares of project land is available to local 
farmers for intercropping.

•  SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities: Facilitate equitable 
access, benefit sharing from and security to land, 
forest and mineral resources.

•  SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities: 

Promote public awareness and local communities’ 
participation in sustainable forest, wildlife and 
land use management.

•  SDG 15 Life on Land: Decreases Ghana’s 

proportion of degraded land and increases rates 
of sustainable forest management.

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Supporting our 
communities continued

India: Orb Household Solar

Demand for electricity outstrips supply, causing 
regular blackouts for those connected to the grid.  
In rural areas, kerosene or other fossil fuels are 
used for energy and lighting, polluting the air inside 
homes. This project has brought over 160,000 
reliable solar power and solar water heating systems 
to customers throughout the country, while cutting 
around 55,000 tonnes of CO2e a year by replacing 
the use of kerosene or electricity from a grid reliant 
on fossil fuels. 

Solar power and solar water systems supplied

160k

The SDG contributions have been indicatively 
measured, and need to be confirmed:
•  SDG 13 Climate Action: Delivering emissions 

reductions.

•  SDG 2 No Poverty: The technology helps 
households and small businesses cut their 
electricity bills by up to 50%.

•  SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being: The project 

reduces indoor air pollution by replacing kerosene 
lamps or other fossil fuels previously used to light 
homes.

•  SDG 4 Quality Education: Providing reliable light 

after sunset increases reading and learning.
•  SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy: Orb’s 

network across India is expanding energy access 
to rural areas and reducing the cost of electricity 
for their customers.

•  SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth: 

Training and skilled job opportunities are created 
to sell, distribute and maintain the solar panels.

Guatemala: Water Filtration  
and Clean Cookstoves

Water-borne disease has been identified as a 
national priority in Guatemala given the high 
incidence of diarrhoeal disease and chronic 
malnutrition. This project, which was the first Gold 
Standard water treatment or cookstove project in 
the country, distributes water filters and stoves that 
enable access to clean water and improve cooking 
conditions by increasing fuel efficiency and reducing 
harmful indoor air pollution.

•  SDG13 Climate Action.
•  SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being.
•  SDG 1 No Poverty.
•  SDF 7 Affordable and Clean Energy.
•  SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation.
•  SDG 15 Life on Land.
•  SDG 5 Gender Equality.
•  SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth.
•  SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and 

Production.

See the video here: youtube.com/
watch?v=6OhKOO3B784

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Governance

At Menzies we believe that our strong internal governance practices 
together with compliance of ESG reporting frameworks and 
regulation are beneficial for our company and our stakeholder 
communities, and should be embraced.

Through good governance, we can embed sustainable development 
principles throughout our strategy and decision-making, develop 
structured sustainability plans, hold ourselves to account and be 
clear, consistent and transparent in communicating progress against 
the commitments and high standards we set as a company, and in 
our stakeholder relationships.

Sustainability Report Scope & Reporting 
Frameworks
Our sustainability report for 2022 includes 
supporting data and progress against our All In plan 
and goals, covering the period from 1st January 
2022 to 31st December 2022. It also includes 
selected information and updates on plans and initial 
progress made in 2023, which will be covered more 
fully in our 2023 Sustainability Report. 

Our Sustainability Report is supported with 
additional detail from the documents listed below, 
which are available on our corporate website, along 
with other information updated and communicated 
from time to time on our corporate website, and 
other related websites and government databases. 
•  Annual Modern Slavery Statement (next report 
due June 2023): menziesaviation.com/anti-
slavery-statement

•  United Nations (UN): Communication on Progress 
(next report due June 2023): menziesaviation.
com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JM-Ltd-UN-
CoP-31.08.2022.pdf 

Menzies is a signatory of the United Nations Global 
Compact and we reference the UN Sustainable 
Development Goals (SDGs) throughout this report. 
Our sustainability report also supports our annual 
UN Communication Progress updates, as well as 
other rating responses e.g. EcoVadis. 

Our disclosure response to the Task Force on 
Climate-related Financial Disclosures can be found 
on pages 40-43 of this Sustainability Report. 

Details of our GHG reporting and methodology, and 
compliance with related reporting requirements 
can be found within the Environment section of this 
Sustainability Report on pages 21-23. 

We engaged TCFD and climate specialists, ESG360° 
Risk Management Limited (ESG360°) to provide 
support on reviewing climate risk scenarios for 2022 
and to provide independent assurance of our 2022 
GHG emissions for scope 1 and 2. ESG360° have 
also supported on our scope 3 emissions analysis 
and preparation of our targets for submission to the 
Science Based Targets Initiative in 2023. Following 
approval of our science based targets in 2023, we 
will publish details of those on our website and 
incorporate details within our future reports. 

Our reporting will further evolve as we align 
and comply with future developments of the 
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) 
and other UK and EU regulatory initiatives that will 
impact us going forward.

Accountability
Our Board and Committees are accountable for 
setting Menzies overall strategy and direction of 
the business, while our Executive Management 
Board are accountable for day-to-day development 
and management of the business, delivery of our 
strategy and management of risks. Accountability 
for sustainability is borne by every level of the 
organisation from the Board down, while the Chief 
Governance and Sustainability Officer has oversight 
and responsibility for our All In plan. While we 
have processes and reporting focused on ESG and 
sustainability, our overall governance framework has 
evolved to include a sustainability lens throughout. 
Read about our Board on page 38, our risk 
framework on page 39 and within our TCFD report 
on pages 40-43.

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Our Board  
of Directors 

Our Board of Directors sets and ensures implementation of 
Menzies long term strategy, builds community relationships, 
and provides the governance framework. The Board has 
oversight of our approach to sustainability and All In plan,  
with particular responsibility residing with our Chairman, 
Hassan El-Houray and CEO, Philipp Joeinig.

Significant changes were made 
to our Board of Directors in 
August 2022, following the 
acquisition of Menzies by Agility 
and subsequent de-listing of John 
Menzies plc from the London 
Stock Market, taking Menzies from 
being a FTSE listed company to 
being wholly privately owned. 
Further details relating the 
acquisition, Board changes and 
de-listing process can be found 
on our website. 

Composition of the Board

Hassan El-Houry
Chairman

Philipp Joeinig
Board Member

Ehab Aziz
Board Member

  Male
  Female

Female representation

20%

Dr. Cheryl Martin
Independent Non-
Executive Board Member

Thomas Plenborg
Independent Non-
Executive Board Member

Our Executive 
Management Board 

Our Executive Management Board (EMB) reports to our Board 
of Directors and is responsible for operational and business 
performance with a focus on embedding a customer centric 
focus throughout the business and making us the provider of 
choice for our customers. 

Composition of the Board

  Male
  Female

Female representation

20%

Our strong leadership team sets a clear direction, 
and positions our business to deliver our strategy 
and grow sustainably. The EMB ensures our decision-
making and approvals processes apply an ESG 
lens and align with our sustainability goals. While 
sustainability is the responsibility of every EMB 
member, with direct ownership for development 
and delivery of our All In plan residing with John 
Geddes, Chief Governance & Sustainability Officer. 
The EMB also sets the tone and performance goals 
for our senior leadership, incorporating ESG targets 
and initiatives into those helping embed our plans 
throughout our business. 

Note: Mervyn Walker will be retiring from his 
permanent role on the EMB in 2023, continuing to 
provide his immense expertise and experience to 
Menzies on a part-time basis into 2024. 

On a day-to-day basis, our All In plan and 
sustainability strategy are developed, communicated 
and implemented across globally by our Head 

of Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility, with 
support from central business functions and 
operational teams throughout our business. 

ESG Committee
Our ESG Committee was paused in 2022 while the 
sale of Menzies to Agility took place, along with 
Board structure changes. While this took place, our 
EMB continued their support and championing of 
our All In plan and wider sustainability agenda.  
Our ESG Committee will become functional in 2023, 
with representation from our senior leaders. It will 
be chaired by the Chief Governance & Sustainability 
Officer with support from the Head of Sustainability 
& Corporate Responsibility. The committee will be 
strategically focused and help shape new initiatives 
and champion our All In plan. They will also 
have responsibility for identifying, assessing and 
managing external and emerging top-down climate 
risks and opportunities as part of our wider risk 
framework. 

Philipp Joeinig
Chief Executive Officer

Alvaro Gomez-Reino
Chief Financial Officer

John Geddes
Chief Governance  
& Sustainability Officer  
& Company Secretary

Mervyn Walker
Chief Operating Officer

Juliet Thomson
Chief People Officer

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Our approach to Risk

RISK FRAMEWORK & GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE

Menzies Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework was updated in Q1 2022 
to evolve our ERM capabilities and processes to take a more proactive approach 
to risk and drive value through accountability, governance and oversight, 
and strategic integration. A number of improvements were made at that time 
and further planned improvements were implemented in 2022, including the 
implementation of our new ERM system. 

Our Risk Committee undertook a thorough 
assessment of all top-down and emerging risks at 
the end of 2022, which are now actively tracked and 
managed in our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) 
system, including our climate-related risks. Following 
this, our principal risks were identified and presented 
to the Audit & Risk Committee, and ratified by them. 
Our risk framework and governance structure is 
shown in the diagram on the right.

We will continue to test and improve our risk 
framework including management, controls and 
oversight, to ensure we remain resilient, grow 
responsibly and protect our business and stakeholders 
at all times. 

Risk Committee
Our Risk Committee was formed in 2021 and provides 
enterprise-wide governance and skilled business 
assessment, as well as identification, of the risks 
facing our business, with a particular focus on top-
down, emerging and principal risks, whether they 
be strategic, change, financial, regulatory, climate, 
political, financial, IT, legal, regulatory, reputational 
or other risks. The committee also reviews risks 
related to new business opportunities along with 
the executive management board. The committee 
has a responsibility to instil enhanced awareness 
and corporate risk governance in a meaningful way, 
informing our strategy and action planning.  
The committee meets quarterly. 

Our ERM system
Our new ERM system holds our risk registers and 
provides greater visibility, ownership, management 
and reporting of risks, and is enabling improved 
tracking of associated actions. It has helped provide 
a dynamic view and tracking of our risks, impacts 
and actions that can be viewed across our global 
business and maintained dynamically by risk owners 
in real time. We will further train and embed our ERM 
processes and across our global business in 2023. 

Operational Risk
Reflecting our purpose of ensuring safe and secure 
operations, as well as our core value of Safety, the 
removal and management of risk throughout our 
day-to-day operations is fundamental. Continuing 
to improve and embed our Menzies Operating 
Responsibly Safely and Effectively (M.O.R.S.E.) 
programme and safety management systems, is a 
top priority. By linking our M.O.R.S.E. system with our 
ERM system over the coming months, we will create a 
more dynamic, ‘live’ operational risk register that can 
be effectively managed. As we onboarded many new 
employees to support or existing and new operations, 
and began integrating NAS locations into our business 
during 2022, ensuring we focus on delivering the best 
safety training, tools and develop our safety culture 
has never been more critical. 2023 will be no different  
as we support continued growth, responsibly. 

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Taskforce for Climate-
Related Financial 
Disclosures (TCFD)

We are pleased to share our second report under the Taskforce for Climate-
Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework. We have made disclosures 
consistent with each of the recommendations consistent with ‘comply and 
explain’ requirements, as we plan on further integrating climate risk and 
opportunity management into our overall risk management. We have conducted 
a detailed risk assessment and scenario analysis and further details of each 
disclosure are outlined in the information and table that follows. 

Our two transition scenarios in respect of climate 
change are described below:
1)   Where governments and regulators lead 

the energy transition aligned with the Paris 
agreement and impose various policy measures 
consistently over this decade. This scenario 
envisages rapid action in respect of net-zero 
targets and implementation of mechanisms such 
as carbon pricing and financial incentives for 
decarbonisation especially for the aviation sector.

2)  Where there is a social tipping point that impacts 
on the aviation sector beginning with developed 
economies. This scenario envisages a drop in 
passenger numbers and drastic measures by 
governments towards end of this decade and a 
low carbon price until middle of this decade with 
growing investor and wider stakeholder focus on 
the aviation sector.

We also carried out physical climate risks 
assessment according to the latest climate science 
of our top 30 airport locations, with outcomes 
captured in the Physical Risk section of this report. 
We will be undertaking climate risk assessments for 
NAS locations in 2023.

Utilising the outcomes of the scenario analysis, 
we have begun to further understand and develop 
the strategic and financial implications of climate 
change on our business and continue to research 
developments that may impact us as outlined in 
each scenario. We also intend to incorporate this 
analysis into new business opportunity assessments.

To help facilitate the implementation of the TCFD 
framework, we have engaged TCFD and climate 
specialists, ESG360° Risk Management Limited 
(ESG360°). ESG360° helped us lay strong foundations 
for developing and maturing our approach in our 
2021 reporting cycle and have continued that 
support in this latest report, particularly around 
emissions calculations in relation to Scope 3, supplier 
engagement and SBTi Net-Zero target setting. The 
progress we have made this year through progressing 
key initiatives further demonstrates our commitment 
to sustainability, ensuring resilience and growing 
responsibly by placing a climate lens over our business 
operations, strategy and approach to governance 
including risk and decision-making. We are particularly 
proud of our commitment to submit science-based 
targets for verification this year, and our target to 
reach net-zero by 2045, and our participation in 
the UN Climate Ambition Accelerator programme. 
Following Agility’s acquisition of Menzies in 2022 
and the subsequent integration of National Aviation 
Services (NAS), we have ensured data relating to each 
of the NAS locations is included in our analysis and 
overall climate risk profile. At our operations we have 
analysed our paper usage and set initial reduction 
targets for 2023 and initiatives identified to reduce 
usage further in future. We are also collaborating 
with some of our customers on how we can further 
reduce paper across shared processes. We continue 
our commitment to increase our electric motorised 
ground support equipment fleet.

Scenarios, Climate Risks and Opportunities

Scenarios
As part of our TCFD implementation process in 
2021, we identified two key scenarios, outlined 
below. Whilst we have found no significant changes 
to either scenario since last year, we continue to 
monitor various indicators relating to these scenarios 
e.g. quantifying the impact of carbon pricing on 
each plausibility to ensure we can include this 
analysis in our forward planning. 

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TCFD continued

Climate Risks and Opportunities
Our TCFD framework implementation process has 
resulted in the Executive Management Board and 
the Board of Directors understanding the qualitative 
impacts of climate change on Menzies in the short, 
medium, and long-term time horizons using scenario 
planning as a strategic tool. We will continue to use 
the insight gained from this analysis to quantify the 
impacts and set our strategic direction to mitigate 
climate risks and maximise the opportunities 
available. Following Agility’s acquisition of our 
business in 2022 and the subsequent integration  
of NAS, an assessment of relevant locations is also 
due to occur in their context. 

External support from our consulting partners, in 
addition to our strategic reviews, have ensured that 
we have identified the high-level key climate related 
risks and opportunities to our business. To further 
our understanding, we have deployed our new 
enterprise risk management module, Corestream, 
supported by Deloitte, and ESG360° to gain granular 
data on our supply chain and scope 3 emissions 

and continue to gather data on our physical and 
transition risks. These risks and opportunities are 
shown in the panel opposite. 

Physical Risks

We carried out a comprehensive physical risks 
assessment of our top 30 airport locations 
based on the latest climate science from the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
(IPCC). This study highlighted five locations prone 
to physical risks namely coastal flooding, sea level 
rise, heat stress and drought in certain regions 
and locations on periods up to 2050, although no 
locations were at risk in the short term. We will carry 
out physical risks assessments of all new airport 
locations in the future to ensure any potential risks 
are identified and considered within the business 
case. We are currently progressing collection of 
physical risk data from our suppliers using the 
ESG360° platform and reviewing the physical risks 
relating to the additional locations resulting from the 
Agility acquisition. 

 “External support from our consulting partners,  

in addition to our strategic reviews, have ensured  
that we have identified the high-level key climate  
related risks and opportunities to our business.” 

Transition Risks and Opportunities

Risks 
As a business, we do not see any fundamental 
changes in our key risks in comparison to analysis 
from last year. The key risks identified are outlined 
below:
•  Implementation of a carbon price and other taxes 
may have a direct financial impact should Menzies 
be unable to reduce its carbon emissions, as well 
as our competitors (medium/long-term).
•  Fast changing consumer attitudes especially 
in developed European markets, may impact 
flight volumes and result in cost pressures from 
our customers where there are already tight 
contractual margins (medium-term).
•  Uncertainties around decarbonisation 

technologies for the aviation sector and 
supporting infrastructure in some locations 
may inhibit our ability to meet our own carbon 
reduction targets and the required pace of 
change, as well as government targets.  
(short/medium/long-term).

Opportunities
•  Energy efficiency and decarbonisation actions 
in operations faster than our competitors, and 
enabling our customers to achieve their targets 
faster.

•  Leading the market with a robust sustainability 
strategy and collaborating with our aviation 
partners to take action, implement change and 
increase our resilience.

•  Accessing grants and subsidies for 

decarbonisation technologies to offset the 
level of investment required in new training, 
technologies and equipment to support delivery 
of our carbon reduction goals as well as support 
the goals of the aviation sector more widely.
•  Building a climate resilient strategy to attract 

relevant capital.

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TCFD continued

GOVERNANCE

DISCLOSURE

REF

STRATEGY

DISCLOSURE

A)  BOARD OVERSIGHT  

OF CLIMATE-RELATED  
RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES.

Climate risks and opportunities identified were communicated to the Executive 
Management Board, and the Company’s Board oversight was achieved via 
the Chief Governance & Sustainability Officer, as well as through our risk 
management processes, captured and discussed with the Audit and Risk 
Committee. 

Pages 
38 
and 
39

A)  SHORT, MEDIUM AND  
LONG-TERM CLIMATE-
RELATED RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES.

Our plans to form our ESG Committee were postponed in 2022 while our focus 
was on the sale and acquisition process of Menzies and subsequent integration 
activities with NAS. Our ESG Committee will now officially hold its first meeting 
with new terms of reference and senior representation from across our business 
in June 2023. 

The ESG Committee will identify ESG-related opportunities, risks, liaise 
and collaborate with external stakeholders, and oversee implementation of 
sustainability initiatives. It will work closely with the Risk Committee, ensuring 
that all climate-related risks are captured in our enterprise risk management 
approach. 

The ESG Committee will meet quarterly and report to the Executive 
Management Board and the Board of Directors through the Chief Governance 
& Sustainability Officer and the Head of Sustainability & Corporate 
Responsibility ensuring Board oversight at the highest level. Progress updates 
will also be made to the Executive Management Board through monthly 
business performance review updates. 

Further details of our governance structure can be found on pages 38 & 39 of 
this Sustainability Report. 

B)  MANAGEMENT’S ROLE 
IN ASSESSING AND 
MANAGING CLIMATE-
RELATED RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES.

Senior management and the Chief Governance & Sustainability Officer have 
been directly involved in our scenario planning exercise and assessment of 
opportunities and risks, as well as participating and shaping our Sustainability 
Strategy and initiatives. This included awareness sessions led by ESG360° 
on climate change and external factors. The Risk Committee met at the end 
of 2022 and reviewed the top down risks and emerging risks which were 
quantified following a set methodology. 

Pages 
38 
and 
39

The Executive Management Board have been informed regularly of progress 
with our Sustainability Strategy throughout the year and have been involved 
in and supported key initiatives, opportunities and collaborations. Details of 
our sustainability plans were communicated directly to over 100 our senior 
managers, including colleagues from NAS, at an internal global leadership 
conference held in November 2022. 

Members of senior management have been assigned appropriate climate 
related targets focused on reducing Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) 
emissions. These will be reassessed and reset for 2023, following more detailed 
scenario planning, Scope 3 accounting and setting of science based targets. 

We have carried out a comprehensive materiality assessment of climate risks 
and opportunities relevant to our business model to understand high-level 
strategic and financial impacts of these issues over short, medium and long-
term time horizons (referenced within the ‘Climate risks and opportunities’ 
section on page 41). Supplier engagement will play a key role in our strategy 
moving forward to map the climate-related risks and opportunities across our 
supply chain. 

REF

Pages 
10, 33 
and 
41

B)  IMPACT OF CLIMATE  
RELATED RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES ON 
OUR BUSINESS, OUR 
STRATEGY AND OUR 
FINANCIAL PLANNING.

C)  THE RESILIENCE OF 
OUR STRATEGY TO 
DIFFERENT  
CLIMATE-RELATED  
SCENARIOS, 
INCLUDING  
A 2C OR LOWER 
SCENARIO.

Net-zero aligned government legislation and changing consumer attitudes 
towards the aviation sector may have a long-term impact on our business. 

Pages 
21–25

We will continue to monitor changes to external impacts and to understand 
granular strategic and financial impacts of climate risk on our business, which 
will better enable us to consider and implement any adjustments to our 
strategy. This will be reported on in more detail in our next Annual Review & 
Sustainability Report. 

We already take an ‘electric first’ approach to all investment decisions around 
new ground support equipment and vehicles. 

As part of the TCFD implementation process, we undertook scenario analysis 
including one scenario aligned with the Paris agreement. Although the aviation 
sector is under pressure due to climate related matters, the results of scenario 
analysis have confirmed no major risks to our strategy in the short to medium 
term at this time. 

Pages 
10, 
21-25 
and 
33

That said, reviewing our strategy with a climate lens taking into account climate 
related risks and impacts in investment decisions is activity we are taking now, 
as noted above, to better consider any adjustments we need to make. We 
intend further reviewing our strategy against the scenarios identified and short, 
medium and long-term timeframes to understand the resilience of our strategy 
and will continue to do so on at least an annual basis, including any new 
material scenarios as they arise. 

We believe our focus on reducing our carbon emissions and collaborating 
with our industry partners on implementing change, new infrastructure and 
supporting each other to achieve our goals, coupled with continuing to develop 
our mix of aviation services and varied geographies we operate in will ensure 
our continued resilience in the short to medium term. 

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TCFD continued

RISK

DISCLOSURE

OUR PROCESSES FOR: 

A)  IDENTIFYING AND 

ASSESSING CLIMATE-
RELATED RISKS;

B)  MANAGING CLIMATE 
RELATED RISKS; AND

C)  HOW OUR PROCESSES 
ARE INTEGRATED INTO 
OUR OVERALL RISK 
MANAGEMENT. 

We identify and assess climate related risks within our existing risk management processes and details 
of climate related principal risks are managed and reported in line with the risk governance structure 
summarised of page 39 of this Sustainability Report.

We have implemented a comprehensive Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system, Corestream, with 
support from Deloitte. Climate risks and opportunities, which were uncovered from last year’s TCFD 
implementation process, are managed and fully integrated within our updated ERM processes and are 
a core part of our risk assessment processes. 

Further details of our risk governance structure, risk management framework including details of our 
approach to identifying, assessing, and managing risk, including integrating climate related risks, can 
be found on page 39 of this Annual Review & Sustainability Report.

METRICS AND TARGETS

DISCLOSURE

REF

Page 
39

REF

A)  METRICS USED TO 

ASSESS OUR  
CLIMATE-RELATED  
RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES  
IN LINE WITH 
STRATEGY AND 
RISK MANAGEMENT 
PROCESSES.

Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions are disclosed on page 23 of this Sustainability Report and our Scope 3 
calculation is underway and will be completed in 2023. 

Pages 
21-25

We are setting up a process to collect data via our value chain to calculate our Scope 3 emissions 
and we are engaging with our top 50 suppliers to understand their GHG emissions, climate risks and 
potential impacts on our own operations. 

Further metrics and targets will be devised through the implementation of the TCFD 
recommendations and as a result of setting our science based targets via the Science-based Targets 
initiative (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard. These will be included within the Sustainability Strategy and 
reflected within appropriate employment key performance indicators (KRAs) including senior 
management and associated financial rewards.

METRICS AND TARGETS

DISCLOSURE

GHG emissions are disclosed in the Environmental section of this Sustainability Report. As referenced 
above, we are undertaking a Scope 3 analysis and accounting exercise in 2023 with the aim of 
setting verified science-based targets in line with the SBTi’s net-zero target setting programme by 
June 2023.

We are engaging with our top suppliers to understand their GHG emissions, climate risks and 
potential impacts on our own operations.

REF

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B)  OUR SCOPE 1, SCOPE 2  
AND IF APPROPRIATE,  
SCOPE 3 GREENHOUSE  
GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS,  
AND THE RELATED 
RISKS.

C)  TARGETS TO MANAGE  

OUR CLIMATE-
RELATED RISKS AND 
OPPORTUNITIES 
AND PERFORMANCE 
AGAINST  
THESE TARGETS.

We are deploying technology to measure and track our Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions and this will 
also be extended to collect Scope 3 data as we work towards our targets. Our GHG emissions data 
and KPIs can be found on page 23 of this Sustainability Report. 

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Once further metrics and targets have been devised through the implementation of the TCFD 
recommendations, scenario analysis and setting of science based targets, performance metrics will be 
further developed as both KRAs as well as renewed targets and metrics for our senior and executive 
management teams.

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