The document discusses the evolution of airport security and planning following the September 11 attacks, focusing on technological advancements and funding priorities to enhance safety. It also covers the challenges faced by airport management in balancing community relations, economic contributions, and environmental sustainability while adapting to changing demands and regulations. Additionally, it highlights the importance of coordinated planning at various levels to ensure the effective management of airport capacity and operations.

1. discussion 8
As a student learning Airport Security as described in your
textbook on Chapter 8.
The events of September 11, 2001, were certainly most tragic,
and as a result future, concerns regarding the security of
airports, and the aviation system in general have been addressed
in a much more proactive manner. Prioritizing airport security
has resulted in rapid developments in security technology and
significantly increased security funding, and has led to
addressing issues long considered a concern by many members
of the traveling public. Protecting against unknown future
threats is an imperfect science, and as such, the future of airport
security will always be an unknown entity. Concerns for the
safe, secure, and efficient travel of passengers and cargo
domestically and internationally will always be a top priority
for the civil aviation system, and it can be assured that efforts
to make the system as secure as possible will continue to be
held in top priority, by all levels of government, as well as
airport management, for the foreseeable future.
Answer the following questions
Mention and explain three major technologies that are used to
control access to sensitive security areas at airports?
What are biometrics? What are some of the technologies that are
considered to apply biometrics to the airport security
environment?
How does airport security differ between commercial service
airports and general aviation airports?

2. How might airports be affected by TFRs? How might airports
better prepare themselves for future threats to civil aviation
security?
Discussion 9
Financial planning of an airport is not a static activity.
Continuous planning and management is required to adapt to the
changing levels in demand, needs for maintaining and
improving facilities, and especially the changing levels of
revenues and other funding available to the airport.
Answer the following questions
What types of insurance do airports carry? What are the
purposes of each type of insurance?
What are the primary differences between the residual cost
approach and the compensatory approach? How do these cost
approaches affect landing fees and other charges?
What elements are considered in establishing the feasibility of
using bonds for financing development?
How do airports develop their operating budgets?
Discussion 10
As a student learning Airport and their Relationship to the
Economy, the Environment and the Communities They Serve as
described in your textbook on Chapter 10.

3. Whether it be concerning economic, political, or environmental
issues, airport management must be prepared to interact with
the community that it serves, including tenants that provide air
transportation, suppliers and service providers, nonaeronautical
tenants, the public who use the airport, and those in the
community who never even see the airport. The challenge for
airport management is to understand all the rules, regulations,
and policies governing each airport parties’ concerns, and
provide an environment that is economically and socially
beneficial to all. Airports that are successful in managing these
roles are known to be significant positive contributors to their
communities. It should be the goal of every airport management
team to make such contributions, and hence receive community
support for current airport operations and future airport
planning.
Answer the following questions
What are the most common pollutants affecting air quality
emitting from airport activity?
How do airports contribute to the economic prosperity of the
communities they serve?
How have airport–airline relations changed since the years
before airline deregulation?
What are airports doing to become more economically and
environmentally sustainable?
Discussion 11

4. As a student learning Airport Planning as described in your
textbook on Chapter 11.
Airport planning at local, regional, state and federal levels
should be coordinated and integrated. This goal, however, is
often difficult to achieve. To some extent, this arises naturally
from different areas of concern and expertise. At the extremes,
local planners are attempting to plan for the development of one
airport, whereas the FAA is trying to codify the needs of several
thousand airports that might request aid. Local planners are
most concerned with details and local conditions that will never
be of interest to a national planning body. Even though the
airport authority might prepare a thoroughly competent plan,
lack of information about other public or private development
proposed in the community (or failure of municipal authorities
to impose and maintain zoning ordinances) allows conflicts to
develop over use of the airport and surrounding land. This
problem can be especially severe where there are several
municipalities or local jurisdictions surrounding the airport
property. Just as there will always be a need for competent
airport management, airport planners will always be needed to
protect the viability of today’s airport system for the aviation
needs of tomorrow.
Answer the following questions
Although the NPIAS is considered the national airport system
plan, it often isn’t a complete plan. Why is this? What is the
purpose of regional-level system planning in your state airport?
Mention the most critical issues addressed by regional-level
system planning of that airport?
In your country of origin pick a popular airport and indicate the
primary objective of its airport terminal area planning? What
factors was taken into consideration in planning the airport

5. terminal area?
What steps are involved in estimating the space requirements in
planning airport terminals? What is an aircraft fleet mix?
Discuss the process involved with environ
Discussion 12
As a student learning Airport Capacity and Demand as
described in your textbook on Chapter 12
In the recent years before September 11, 2001, the single most
pressing issue in the commercial aviation industry was that of
airport capacity and delay. In 2001, demands on the system
decreased significantly as fears of terrorism, a declining
economy, and financial troubles of the major air carriers
reduced the numbers of enplaning passengers and aircraft
operations. Demand rebounded to the greatest levels in aviation
history soon thereafter, only to decline again with the world
economic downturn in the last years of the twenty-first
century’s first decade. In the 2010s this demand rebounded with
record numbers of passengers flying on ever larger sized
aircraft. To be prepared for this growth, airport planners and
management, along with private industries and local, regional,
and federal governments, should embrace the principles of
airport capacity and demand management and have sought ways
to further improve the system to accommodate the future of air
travel. While systemwide improvements continue to develop,
airport management should always be aware of their individual
environments, particularly when it comes to planning and
managing capacity.
Answer the following questions

6. How did the A-380 affect the planning, design, and management
of airport facilities?
Discuss the best approaches to reducing delay in Miami
Airport?
What are some of the latest technology applications that
contribute to the emergence of the “smart airport”?
In your opinion, what is the future of civil air transportation, in
general, and airport management, in particular? How will new
airport safety management systems impact airport management?
In what ways can airports become more environmentally
sustainable? How will FAA reauthorization impact airport
management?