Manchester Airports Group offers prize for first zero-carbon commercial flight

Owner of Manchester and Stansted airports offers five years' free landing fees as part of net-zero pledge

Manchester Airports Group has offered a prize of five years' free landing fees to the first airline to operate a zero-emissions commercial flight, as it pledged to become a net-zero carbon airport by 2038.

Britain's biggest airport group, which owns Manchester and Stansted airports, has upped the ante on the wider industry's commitment to achieve net-zero by 2050, and a similar one-year incentive offered by Heathrow.