Airport Operations with reference to Airlines, for the Basic Understanding for a Layman.
Airport Operations with reference to Airlines, for the Basic Understanding for a Layman. Mohammed Shariq Ibrahimi Introduction The airport operations departments have largely become a major part of the airport and back support for the airline which operates at the airport. Due to the extreme growth in the aviation industry and the increasing demand, the airports need huge manpower to operate them. In some cases almost half of the population working in the city just works for the airport, in a city population of around half a million (The Airport as an Operational system, Third Edition). By this we can understand the scale of the team required to operate the airport and how many operations might have been under functions to require this amount of staff. For instance, Atlanta is considered as one of the largest airports in the world as per annual passenger flow (The Global Airline Industry ). What is the purpose and the aim of the operations team? The airp...