The aviation industry encounters new challenges and threats nowadays as airports’ functions have changed. The following paragraphs will explain these different challenges the aviation industry has to face today. Airport operators need to embrace state of the art technology in order to renew the travel experience of passengers according to today’s standard. Airports face competition of: adjacent cities, high-speed trains connecting cities and social media connecting the world to work. I. Challenges/threats to the aviation industry 1.1 Adjacent cities Adjacent cities are the toughest and worst friends an airport can have as these cities often complain about noise, pollution and are never willing to give up their living space for the expansion of an airport nearby. Historically, airports such as Schiphol (Netherlands), which was built in 1916, were built on farmers’ land and open spaces close to a major city. Subsequently though, the adjacent city will likely expand which is harder for airports as these cannot be moved easily. This will result in airports being closed-in by the surrounding city such as for example Berlin Tempelhof. If the airport …show more content…
By adding a third runway to Heathrow airport, the capacity will be increased from 472.000 to 740.000 flights a year Although the level of noise on one hand will drop, due to the shifting of the approach routes, steeper approach paths and the revision of noise abatement procedures, new areas will be affected by the third runway. Hence, as an airport you can provide for example night and day noise insulation and home relocation programs to the communities affected. Airport operators can reduce resistance by including protesters in the project teams. This will be explained through the example of Heathrow airport and the Sipson village (Heathrow Airport Ltd.,
The EPA and our Airport are going to work diligently together, it is important to not just work with them but to listen and act on what they say. Im very high on the EPA and find it difficult to see what is happening to our environment, my goal is to make our airport as green as
...fore each of our flight, it is necessary for us to choose one or several alternate. This is helpful for our safety. There are many stories and a lot of people had been died since the recently 100 years because of not following the rules. We need to learn something from this, then we can avoid these things happening again, maybe it can save many people’s lives. Choosing an alternate airport, it is quite important for us during our flight. None of us can find out the things that will happen in the future, so we had better to be well prepared. We can choose an alternate airport every time before our flight, so if we have something wrong with the weather or aircraft, we still have many choices. It is quite useful for our flight.
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As airline industry is a competitive marketplace, the airline companies use new technologies to improve their efficiency and decrease the overhead costs, including ‘advanced aircraft engine technology, IT solutions, and mobile technology’ (Cederholm 2014). The technology changes including technology improvement, new innovation and disruptive technology. The disruptive technology need to meet the characteristics of ‘simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability’ (Christensen 1995). The technology changes would bring both opportunities and threats to airline companies. Since Labour cost and fuel costs occupy 50% of most airlines operating cost (Groot 2014). Therefore, if new technologies could be disruptive in the two aspects, there will be important changes to current airline
Urban sprawl is a widespread concern that impacts land use, transportation, social and economic development, and most importantly our health. Poorly planned development is threatening our health, our environment and our quality of life. Sprawl is blamed for many things such as asthma and global warming, flooding and erosion, extinction of wildlife, and most importantly the public health such as social isolation and obesity due to people driving everywhere. Building offices, homes, shops, schools and other buildings influences the building of roads, transit and other transportation modes. This relationship that can lead to safe, walkable, diverse and lively communities or out of control, poorly planned urban sprawl. Unfortunately sprawl has been winning and the public health is at risk.
Since the Jet Age, airlines have been entering and existing the airline industry. Some have been in business since the very beginning. For example, United airlines was founded almost twenty-five years before the jet age took off, and due to an incredible amount of money that the airline had by being one of the first airlines predating the Jet Age, was able to buy new jets and assert itself as one of THE giants of air travel by the late 1950’s. But the introduction of new technology paved the way for issues regarding externalities, and production of these new technologies. ("Assessing the external environment - Responding to a changing external business environment - United Airlines | United Airlines case studies and information | The Times 100", n.d., p. 1) The beginning of the Jet Age offered an intense opportunity for new firms to open or expand, producing new products from jet engines to structural parts, from radar technology, to reclining seats. According to research done by the Air Transportation Action Group, “It has been estimated the airline industry supports a grand total of 29 million jobs” (Hanlon, 2007, p. 1). This statistic proves how dependent the world is on the airline industry, for jobs and travel, as well as r...
The main opportunities that the scheduled air transportation will have in the next five years are the possible decrease of TSA agents at airports, technology increasing the safety and comfort of the flights for the passengers and ...
The noise of Aircrafts was historically a major environmental issue for the airline. It is still high on the agenda of public concern. Noise disturbance has a variety of difficult issues to assess because it is open for self- reactions. Its impact is not one permanently on the actual environment, but it can have many effects on the people living in the area of the airport, including: interference in c...
Several large scale, interrelated conditions have affected the airline industry over the past several years in such a manner that every carrier has had to respond in order to remain viable and competitive.
One of the stakeholders group is customers. As they are the most important part of the business, without them you cannot operate the business. If u doesn’t have customers for whom will you produce? They just want high quality product at fair prices and good services. By building up the second runway they will be able to fly more flights and more customers will be attracted as they can easily get the ticket. The price of tickets might rise as the demand will rise which customers will don’t want. It will be convenient for their customers as there will more choices of airline flying there, they can choose amongst them.
Dose the Noise contributed from the development or urban area effect the environment of the birds? I hypothesize that the Noises made
Indeed, many global cities face compelling urban planning issues like urban sprawl, population, low density development, overuse of non-renewable natural recourses, social inequities and environmental degradation. These issues affect the cities themselves, the adjacent regions and often even globally. The resulting ecological footprint upsets the balance in adjacent rural and natural areas. Unplanned or organic development leads to urban sprawl, traffic problems, pollution and slums (as evident in the case of Mumbai city). Such unplanned development causes solid waste management and water supply to fall inadequate. Urban sprawl gives rise to low density development and car dependent communities, consequently leading to increased urban flooding, low energy efficiency, longer travel time and destruction of croplands, forests and open spaces for development.
This essay deals with the growth of the aviation industry based on the demand for air travel. Therefore, will touch upon the structure of the aviation industry and the stages of development that can create an impact on it. This assignment will also cover discussions and evaluation based on the implications of the changes for the aviation industry.
The demand for aviation transportation has never been greater with airports playing a key role in the overall success of the air transportation system and for over 40 years the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has listed over 5,000 public use airports as being important to the public need for aviation services (Young & Wells, 2011, p. 10).
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