Strategic Airport Planning & Development

STRATEGIC AIRPORT
PLANNING &
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Part 1 Explanation of key planning challenges for an airport Master Planning team, when
giving consideration to future airport expansion.........................................................................1
Part 2 Explain how successful/unsuccessful they have been using previous Master Plan since
the previous Master Plan was published......................................................................................2
Part 3 Possible impact for stakeholders.......................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Strategic planning and development is an organizational process or strategy that help
organizations in allotting and using their resources in such a manner that that overall business
strategy can be developed, as well plans for the long-term development of an organization
(Goodfellow and Natarajan, 2021). Strategic planning and development of an airport can help in
identifying channels faced by planning team so that those challenges can be overcome and
accordingly a new masterplan for expansion of airport can be developed. Organization focused
upon in this report is Heathrow airport. It is also known as Lonon Airport is second busiest
airport in the word and one of the major international airport in London England. This report will
lay emphasis upon Airport surface accessibility and traffic forecasting for Heathrow airport.
MAIN BODY
Part 1 Explanation of key planning challenges for an airport Master Planning team, when giving
consideration to future airport expansion
1.1 Airport traffic forecasting
Airport traffic forecast has always been a challenge for master planning team of
Heathrow airport. This is because Heathrow airport the second busiest airport in the world. As
this airport has only two runways therefore it does not allow low- cost carriers at this airport.
Many times, early morning arrival flights are more than expected forecasted demand level. It has
always been a challenge for master planning team of Heathrow airport because due to its busiest
traffic new entrants are never given priority in securing slots (Pretto and et. al., 2020). Domestic
connectivity from Heathrow airport is increasing because of which traffic at airport is always
greater than forecasted traffic. In fact, it is one of the major infrastructural challenge faced by
Heathrow airport. Mostly traffic at airport is always greater than forecasted traffic. But in 2020
due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, traffic at Heathrow airport was much lower as comparted to
traffic forecasted fur to this their overall revenue was also impacted. In 2020 traffic forecasted
was 29.2 million but original traffic was 22.6 million.
On the basis of this explanation some considerations that can be considered for future
airport expansion planning of Heathrow airport are: in third runway expansion plan, new entrants
will be given some priority in booking slots, so that allowance of low- cost carriers can be
increased. This will further help the airport to deal with negative impact of Covid-19 and this
traffic forecasting challenge can be overcome by the airport.
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