Introduction
The airport that I chose is the Los Angeles International airport. It is the airport in my hometown and I have always been fascinated by its operation. I currently work in the city of El Segundo in which it is located. Its ICAO call sign is KLAX, NPIAS - 06-0139. Given its size it is a large primary airport. It is publicly owned by the city of Los Angeles with the management of the property handled by Jacqueline Yaft. LAX started operation in 1940 and was a tertiary hub to the main airports at the time located in Burbank and Glendale. It currently utilizes 4 runways, with the longest stretching in length above 12,000 ft and one helipad. When it first started operations there were only two main runways. American, Trans World, United, Western and Pan Am operated primarily from Los Angeles International Airport in 1947 as defined by Masters,N. (2012). Today LAX consists of nine terminals with one main international terminal (Named after Tom Bradley a long standing mayor of Los Angeles during the 1990’s). It services an average of 63 million passengers per year and is considered the sixth largest airport in the United States.
The surrounding communities are Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, Inglewood and El Segundo in which it is based. Among the MRO and maintenance facilities that comprise of the outer regions of the airport, there are numerous aviation suppliers/companies that operate in the area. Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Teledyne Controls are a few of the aviation companies that have facilities based in the area, the latter I am an employee of. There are numerous other cities that have airline hubs with surrounding aviation centers, such as Atlanta, Orlando, Seattle and Phoenix However, El ...
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The Mason City Municipal airport has lots of history. Building it, how everything changed, commercial flight itself, and it’s got some extra cool stuff hidden throughout its time.
Hartsfield –Jackson Atlanta International Airport (n.d.). Case Study. Atlanta Metropolitan Aviation Capacity Study Phase II. Retrieved from
The Denver International Airport, often referred to as DIA, was first opened in 1995, but the discovery of the first airfield
There is a public airport here in Marathon, easily accessible from the major airport on the southern Florida mainland in Miami. A dazzling, eco-natural
There is no doubt that an elaborate underground base exist below the Denver International Airport. What actually is going on down below in this base however is a mystery. When taking a closer look at this airfield it is evident that something weird is going on. “While the most extreme claim maintains that a massive underground facility exists below the airport where an alien race of reptilian humanoids feeds on missing children while awaiting the date of government-sponsored rapture” (Maher 4). This extreme claim just shows what the human mind can conceive when coincidence and the unknown meet. The research is done, is there a conspiracy or is it just being blown out of proportion.
On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines flight 800, A Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near New York 12 minutes after its departure. All 230 people on board died.
Denver International Airport Construction and Operating Costs. (1997, July 5).University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved April 28, 2011, from http://www.colorado.edu/libraries/govpubs/dia.htm
In Denver the traffic load that was being handled by Stapelton Airport was too high. When Denver International (DIA) opened in February 1995 it could immediately take three times of the traffic that Stapelton could the week before. I believe that the airports around the country and specifically in Phoe...
Mola, R. (n.d.). The Earliest Airports. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved January 8, 2012, from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Government_Role/earliest_airports/POL9.htm
On September 11, 2001, twenty Arab men boarded four different airplanes with the intent of attacking our country. They boarded the planes with the intent of causing tremendous damage to New York City and Washington, D.C. Two planes crashed into each tower of the World Trade Center, one plane crashed into the Pentagon, and the last plane crashed into a Pennsylvanian field. These twenty men cut short over 3000 lives. The innocent people that died had no need to have their lives taken in the way that they were. However, they lost their lives because they were American, and to the terrorists, they stood for certain principles.
The Denver International Airport opened on February 28th, 1995. It wasn’t available for use nearly 16 months behind schedule costing 4.8 billion dollars, two billion over the spending budget. It is 35,000 acres which makes it the second largest airport on the planet and is about double the size of the next largest airport. The reasoning for opening a new airport for Denver was mysterious because Denver already had a functioning airport. This airport is also a whole 6 miles outside of Denver; basically, in the middle of nowhere. The entire roof of DIA is made of 15 acres of Teflon-coated, woven fiber glass. This material makes it impossible to find the place using radar.
to major airports but later it went down as PE try to grow faster and
As Sassen (40) defined, networks and circus are elementary of global cities, having a well–connected airport is thus critical for linkage of a city with the world as it allows intensive flows of information, people and products. Hong Kong has developed itself into an international aviation hub the holds leading position in both passenger and cargo terms. According to the Airports Council International (), HKIA ranked as number 10 and 1 as the world’s busiest airport by passenger and cargo traffic respectively. We should, of course, be proud of having such an outstanding airport as foundation of our economic success. However, other Asian cities have caught up in challenging Hong Kong’s leadership for their increasing passengers and cargo flows and expansion plan to increase capacity. To what extent the third runway, as suggested by the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK), can help Hong Kong withstand such a fierce competition?
Airports are vast facilities covering many acres of land where passenger beginning the flight portions of their travels. The first flight by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903 only required a runway. As the technology of flight advanced to offer passenger service, there was soon a need for a building to manage passenger needs. Airports of today provide many key services needed for the traveler whether they are beginning, transferring, or ending their journeys. The demand for air transportation rises each year, according to the Department of Transportation (United States Department of Transportation, 2013) 815.3 passengers traveled by airplanes in 2012. With the demand expected to rise, airports must be able to keep pace with services. There are many different services provided however, this report will discuss terminal design, baggage handling, and ground access.
The competitive advantage of an airport depends on five core factors, namely the Spatial, Facility, Demand, Service and Managerial factor. The Spatial factor refers to the level of regional development surrounding and around the airport, for example, an international trade zones, convention centres, and other facilities. Facility factors are the level of facilities and the airport’s ability to expand and increased its facilities. Demand factor refers to the level of origin-destination demand and that of transit and transfer traffic volumes for hub-and-spoke network. Service factor refers to the...