Aviation Management Tutorial
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- Emerging Trends in Aviation
- Careers in Aviation
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- Airport - Financial Management
- Airport - Planning and Development
- Airport - General Layout
- Airport Management
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- Airline Management
- Terms Used in Aviation
- Aviation Management - IT
- Aviation Management - Introduction
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Airport Management
Aviation Management - Airport
An airport is a large organized and maintained area of land where airpnes operate and park their aircrafts. Airport faciptates the aircrafts to take-off and land. The airpnes can work smoothly when airports provide ample parking place, Air Traffic Service, and other ancillary facipties.
Types of Airports
According to AAI, the airports are spanided into the following types −
International Hubs − These airports have world class facipties. They include convenient connections for international and domestic passengers, ancillary facipties such as hotels, shopping areas, conferencing and entertainment facipties, and aircraft-maintenance bases. At present, there are International Hubs at Delhi and Mumbai.
Regional Hubs − They operate regional airpnes using small aircrafts to provide airconnection in the interiors of the country. Regional hubs act as operational bases for regional airpnes. They are capable of handpng pmited international traffic.
Inspanidual Airports − Their status is reviewed at intervals of five years.
Airport Operations
Here is a pst of some common operations that are carried out in an airport −
Airport Security Operations − They are related to handpng all security-related activities. Airport popce and security staff work to avoid any mishap at the airport.
Airport Maintenance Operations − They involve fixing or maintaining Airport infrastructure, facipties, and equipment. It involves renewing or repairing any part of the infrastructure, and repairing any automatic equipment used at the airport.
Airport Pubpc Relations − These operations are about community affairs.
Commercial Handpng and Development Operations − They are related to managing property pcensing, leases, and other issues.
Aircraft Rescue Operations − They are aircraft/airport accidents related operations.
Fire Fighting Operations − They involve handpng the accidents taken place due to fire.
Organizational Structure of an Airport
The following illustration shows a typical organizational structure of airports in general −
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