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VI.3. Airport city: a dream or realistic ambition?
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VI.3. Airport city: a dream or realistic ambition?Airport city has a double meaning: while it could be a business model for several airports at the same time it is a new urban spatial development strategy for the airport region. The first concept belongs to the airport business management theory but the second is much more a concept of the municipalities of the airport’s surrounding area although in many cases these municipalities are shareholders of the airports! It is shown that airports need have a certain passenger flow to be able develop and maintain such a lot of non-aeronautical business which can be considered as “airport city”. Based on low-cost carriers and low-cost travellers can’t achieve the revenue per sq.m. needed for the profitability of a top quality fashion shop or business centre at the airport. The same could be considered if we are talking about air traffic related services as aircraft maintenance or training of the airplane crew. It should be an airport where move enough aircraft which can profit of these services or there should exist enough service provider with the special manpower to offer these services at a high quality. At those regions where the airport serves 15 million people in a year and there are direct flights to 40–50 destinations as a minimum while one air line carrier uses the airport as basic airport, there could be considered the development as an “airport city” offering a lot of non-aeronautical services for passengers and professionals in the air traffic related businesses. And on the other hand at those airports is needed to develop the offer of hotels and accommodations, restaurants, leisure and other special services (e.g. medical care, or entertainment). At these regions can be projected the spatial planning by developing the airport’s surrounding area for air traffic related business activities and for residential area of these employees. If the need is strong enough it can projected the development between the airport region and the closest metropolitan poles for airport corridors. But in the meantime it can’t be forgotten develop the multimodal hubs because an airport of this level is functioning as a hub for the hinterland as well. At airports and regions where these preconditions are not in place it is recommended to consider other possibilities to be a successful airport. First of all it should be studied the soci-economical environment of the airport and find the possible niche markets which could be appropriate for the airport. It can be “low-cost base”, or freight centre or other, special air traffic related activity. But in any case possibilities and strategic goals have to coincide! The airport city could be a dream for somebody while a realistic ambition for another.
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1 For more details please visit our website on www.airLED.eu 2 John D. Kasarda: Airport Cities: The Evolution; Chapter 1 (London: Insight Media, 2008) 3 Mathis and Michael Güller. From Airport to Airport City. Airports Region Conference, Barcelona Spain, 2001. 4 John D. Kasarda: Airport Cities: The Evolution; Chapter 1 (London: Insight Media, 2008) 5 John D. Kasarda: The Way Forward; Global Airport Cities; Insight Media, 2010 6 Airport futures: Towards a critique of the aerotropolis model by Michael B. Charles, Paul Barnes, Neal Ryan, Julia Clayton; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328707000699 7 Application Form of „airLED” project, page 41. 8 The list of airports and their NUTS3 regions see in the Annex; due to the different availability of regional data in some analysis we couldn't use data of Italian airports 9 http://www.aerotropolis.com/files/2013_AerotropolisStatus.pdf 10 Source of figures 2-3: Eurostat regional yearbook 2012, European Commission; http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-HA-12-001/EN/KS-HA-12-001-EN.PDF 11 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/search_database 12 ACI EUROPE represents over 450 airports in 46 European countries, which handle 90% of commercial air traffic in Europe, more than 1,5 billion passengers each year; www.aci-europe.org 13 An Outlook for Europe’s Airports, Facing the Challenges of the 21th Century; ACI-EUROPE 2010 14In the different databases (Eurostat and ACI EUROPE) we have find data only of 238 airports of them, or their passenger traffic were less than 100 thousand persons in 2010. 15 E.g. ACI EUROPE Economics Report 2012; https://www.aci-europe.org/policy/position-papers.html?view=group&group=1&id=6 16 Martin Hvidt Thelle, Torben Thorø Pedersen and Frederik Harhoff: Airport Competition in Europe, Copenhagen Economics, June, 2012 - ACI-EUROPE 17 An Outlook for Europe’s Airports, Facing the Challenges of the 21th Century; ACI-EUROPE 2010 18 An Outlook for Europe’s Airports, Facing the Challenges of the 21th Century; ACI-EUROPE 2010 19 Based on the study of ACI and York Aviation: „The social and economic impact of airports in Europe” January, 2004 Europe State – of – Art Report Directory: wordpress -> wp-content -> uploads -> 2012 uploads -> Victim participation in criminal procedures uploads -> Bury st edmunds hockey club uploads -> Professor rona s beattie and dr david bamaung glasgow caledonian university email for corresponding author uploads -> Best Offensive Players: qb #19 keenan reynolds, N, ’16. Lg #57 E. K. Binns, N, ’16 uploads -> Smart Supervision Research Partner Orientation Course fy13 and fy14 Grantees September 29- october 1, 2015/San Antonio, tx uploads -> Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (across) 2012 -> Annual Curriculum and Accreditation Review 2012 -> Section 1-1 Introduction of cemmath Download 474.77 Kb. Share with your friends:
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