Airport Planning And Management

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AIRPORT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
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The HK airport is the International Airport of Hong Kong. The Airport was first
inaugurated on 6th July 1998 and it is connecting around 220 worldwide destinations by
around 120 airlines. The Hong Kong international airport has received around 80 awards of
best airports in the world. This international airport has two runways and it has over 230
shops and 60 restaurants (Lam et al 2018). The Hong Kong International airport was
designed by Lord Norman Foster was a British architect. According to the estimate of IATA,
the airport will handle 102 million passengers by the year 2030. To meet the growing
requirement, the airport authority of Hong Kong has come up with a plan that has outlined
the plans of development in the future of the airport. The board of the Airport authority of
Hong King includes the chairperson of the board, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary for the
Transport and Housing, Secretary for the financial services and the treasury, Director General
of the civil aviation. The Hong Kong International Airport envelops an area of 1,255 hectares
and there are 90 gates in all of boarding in the airport. The present users of the Airport
include Emirates, Qantas, Singapore Airways, British Airways, Lufthansa and many more.
The composition of the Airport includes Terminal 1, Terminal 2, North Satellite Concourse,
Midfield Concourse and several different buildings in the Airport (Hon et al 2019). The
Airport Authority of Hong Kong has several plans to develop the Airport of Hong Kong. The
Hong Kong’s Airport Authority has decided a master plan that will be implemented by the
year 2030. The master plan will consist of two-runway system in the Airport and a system of
three-runway in the International airport. The Airport Authority of Hong Kong handles Hong
Kong activities of Airport. The Airport Authority of Honk Kong is a body of statutory that is
possessed by the Hong Kong government. The International Airport of Hong Kong has two
different runways those are parallel to each other. The International Airport of Hong Kong
was busiest for the traffic of the passengers in the year 2010 in the continent of Asia.

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The Fire fighting and the rescue services those are present within the Airport of Hong
Kong are covered by the Fire Contingent of Airport. The Contingent has 282 members in all
and they have two different fire stations that do the operations of rescue. The contingent has
14 appliances of fire that can respond to the various incidents within 2 minutes. Two rescue
boats with high capacity and the eight speedboats support them (Wan and Zhang 2018).
Those are allocated two ambulances at each of the fire stations of the International airport.
The Flying Service of Government offers long and short-range services and the search of
rescue, support of police, medical examination and flight for general purpose for the
Government. The Airport also offers various types of facilities to the passengers.
There are various types of committees that handle the operations of the airport. The
committees include Finance and Audit Committee, Business, Committee of Development,
Committee of Human Resource and Remuneration and the Committee of NCD. Various
executive directors handle the Airport (Eng and Sullivan 2018). These include the Executive
Director for the development of property, Executive Director for the Commercial, Executive
Directors for the operations of the Airport, Executive Director for the Engineering and
Technology, Executive Director for Finance and Executive Director for the Third runway.
Year Passengers
Movements
Airfreight
movements (tonnes)
Aircraft movements
2012 56,057,751 4,062,261 352,000
2013 59,913,000 4,122,000 372,040
2014 63,367,000 4,376,000 390,955
2015 68,488,000 4,380,000 406,000
2016 70,502,000 4,521,000 411,530
2017 72,866,000 4,937,000 421,000
2018 74,672,000 5,121,000 428,000