Comparative Analysis of Airport Planning and Management: HK vs Changi

This report provides a comparative analysis of the Hong Kong (HK) and Singapore Changi airports, focusing on their administrative and organizational structures, airside and landside infrastructure, and operational and financial data. The report examines the HK airport, highlighting its design, passenger capacity, and the roles of key entities like the Airport Authority of Hong Kong. It also presents operational data, including passenger, airfreight, and aircraft movements. The report then shifts to the Singapore Changi Airport, detailing its infrastructure, management structure, and operational strategies. It includes passenger and operational statistics, and discusses the roles of key departments like the Emergency Service Division. The analysis aims to compare the planning and management differences between the two airports, providing insights into their respective approaches to airport operations and development, and highlighting key aspects such as passenger experience and future expansion plans.

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Discussions
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

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The Singapore Changi Airport that is also known as the Changi Airport is known as a
civilian Airport and this airport is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. The Airport
is situated in Changi that is at the eastern corner of the country of Singapore (Lee and Miller
2019). The kind of the Airport is military and public and the owner of the airport is the
Government of Singapore. The Airport servers more than around 100 airlines those are flying
to around 380 cities. The Airport consists of four terminals. The Airport also consists of a
luxury terminal named as the CIP terminal. By the year 2030, a fresh terminal that is terminal
5 will be ready for utilisation and this terminal is likely to handle about 50 million passengers
per year.
The Board of Director operates the Changi Airport. The Board of Directors Consists
of the chairman and the chief executive officer, Non-chief Executive Director and the
members of the Board that handles the operations of the Airport (Neo 2019). The
management of Airport is the team that administers the requirements those are operational of
the Airport of Changi. The responsibility consists of making sure that the operations are
effective, establishing safety, measures of security and many more. Their task is also to
provide excellent services to the customers. The management of the Airport consists of the
position of Operations of Airside, Management of Airside, Operations Strategy and Planning
of Airport, Management of Facility, System and Procedure Innovation, Technology and
Corporate IT and Experience of Passengers. Their job is to manage the airport and to see that
the customers are having no problem and providing the customers with excellent services
(Henderson 2017).

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The Airport Group of Changi manages the security and the safety of the airport
(Sailauov and Zhong 2019). The Emergency Service Division of the Airport handles the fire
fighting and the emergency services and the Emergency Services of Airport handles all the
instances of fire fighting and the rescues that happen within the Airport.
Today, the Airport of Changi is known for its passenger experience that has become a
synonym with the global connectivity, distinctive and global connectivity. The customers are
rising day by day in the Airport and the challenges of the Airport are to raise the standard of
the Airport higher.
Year Passenger
Movements
Airfreight
Movements
(Tonnes)
Aircraft Movements
2012 51,181,804 1,806,225 324,722
2013 53,726,087 1,850,233 343,800
2014 54,093,070 1,843,799 341,386
2015 55,448,964 1,853,087 346,334
2016 58,698,039 1,969,434 360,490
2017 62,219,573 2,125,226 373,201
2018 65,600,000 2,150,000 386,000

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