Airport Planning and Development Essay

Airport Planning and
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Illustration 1: Gibraltar Airport........................................................................................................2
Illustration 2: Gatwick Plan proposal .............................................................................................5
Illustration 3: Gatwick Airport operation........................................................................................7
Illustration 4: Financial review of Gatwick.....................................................................................8
Illustration 5: Consolidated cash flow statement of Gatwick..........................................................9

INTRODUCTION
For any airport, there is need of planning and development so that it can be successfully
build and for its operation. It acts as base foundation and growth of airport. There are various
federal requirements are required that too from different department while implementing the
process. Further, there are various requirements, techniques and tools that are very essential at
the time of planning of airport management process. Planning is needed as it provides framework
that helps to make baseline of area or land where airport is going to be build and to forecast
future development or progress. For an aviation system to be effective and efficient there are
various things that needed to be considered such as National Plan of Integrated Airport system,
Regional and state aviation system plan, project design, standards and justification, land use plan,
airport master and layout plan and zoning ordinances (De Neufville, 2016). Similarly, there are
various things needed to be planned before development of Airport. Two airport that are selected
are Gatwick Airport situated in south of London, England which is a pubic type airport and
Gibraltar Airport, a multi-purpose airport that was made at World War II and now used for
military as-well-as for the public purpose. Four areas on which these airports evaluated are,
ground access, environmental issues, airport building and its financing and marketing.
Based on the Ground Access.
Ground access is the transportation links that connects the Airport to other vehicles.
Airport that has facility of land and water are considered as best way for transportation as people
can chose among the suitable think that connects to the airport (Freestone and Wiesel, 2014).
However, there is need to overview about other factors such as security, environment and
availability of resources.
Gatwick Airport, south of London, south-east England, is the 8th-busiest airport in
Europe. It construction was started in year 1920 and in 1933 it was started for commercial
flights. There are two terminals and over 43.1 million passengers passed this airport in year 2016.
The major transportation used by the people are road and rails. People can use public or private
transportation vehicle to access this place. However, Gibraltar Airport was made to serve as a
base for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (Magalhães, Reis and Macário, 2017). It is
located between the countries Morocco and Spain sits the tiny British territory of Gibraltar.
However, now it is used for the commercial flights land on daily basis. People can access to the
airport using the road and water transport. One of interesting thing about the Airport is that it cuts
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Winston Churchill Avenue, Gibraltar's busiest road, across the runways. The Airport is made on
the island where one of its side is mountain and to the other side there is main city. This was the
only place where people could have built runway (Ison, Merkert and Mulley, 2014.). It can be
easily viewed that people use road as major transportation to reach these places. However, there
are other sources such as railways that are cheap and affordable areas to reach the Airport and for
the second one that is high-speed yachts.
Illustration 1: Gibraltar Airport
(Sources: Gibraltar International Airport, 2017)
Based on environmental issues
Based on the impacts of airports and aviation on the environment, major impacts are
caused due to Gatwick Airport (Halpern and Graham, 2016.). Being the busiest airport many
flights land there which causes huge pollution. Environmental issues can be subdivided into
various categories such as terminal and ground operations, flights, airport access and associated
projects. These are the high negative impacts of Gatwick Airport due to their flight operations,
they cause air pollution, biodiversity impacts, climate change, heritage, noise and risk to animals
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