For environmentally-conscious travelers keen to reduce their carbon footprint, it’s a welcome improvement.
“Planes have this sort of large carbon print,” stated passenger Brent Petersen, 33, in George. “If we compensate, that’s cool.”
George Airport became at the start built in apartheid-era South Africa in 1977 to make getting home easier for PW Botha, a central authority minister on the time and later president.
It now serves as a transit hub for shipments of homegrown flora and oysters, in addition to golfers touring one of the region’s many publications. Some seven hundred,000 passengers pass via its doors every year.
The sun plant, launched in September 2015, is the second one sun-run airport in the global after Cochin airport in southern India.