Airport and Airways Flashcards
A location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft,
helicopters, and blimps takeoff and land.
Airport
It is also called an airbase or air station.
Military airport
Smaller or less-developed airports often have a single runway shorter than ______.
1,000 m (3,300 ft)
Larger airports for airline flights generally have paved runways ______ or longer.
2,000 m (6,600 ft)
The first use of the term “airport” originated in _____; when the flying boats landed and departed from the
port of _______.
Southampton, England
Earliest aircraft takeoff and landing sites
Grassy fields
It is the “world’s oldest airport” established in 1909 by Wilbur Wright that operates only general aviation traffic.
College Park Airport (Maryland, US)
Another claim to be the world’s oldest airport, which had the first airplane in the state.
Bisbee-Douglas International Airport (Douglas, Arizona, US)
The first international airport of the Americas
Douglas International Airport
The oldest municipal airport
in the United States.
Albany International Airport
Britain’s oldest municipal airport today.
Shoreham Airport
IATA code
for Philadelphia International Airport.
PHL
IATA/ICAO code
Hong Kong International Airport
HKG (VHHH)
Airports are divided into _____.
landside and airside areas
- part of an airside area
- a strip of land at an airport on which aircraft can take off and land and forms part of the maneuvering area.
- man made and natural surface
runway
a path on an airport connecting runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
taxiway
- the area where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled or boarded.
- a license may be required to gain access.
airport ramp or apron
a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles.
parking lot
- car park ( Malaysia,
Australia, United Kingdom and Ireland)
- car lot
comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use.
public transport
provide critical links between public-use airport facilities and the public roadway network serving the surrounding area.
access roads
- provide restricted access within an airport’s airfield.
- used by airport, and FAA staff to conduct business activities, such as security checks and maintenance work, on an airport.
perimeter roads
a building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from aircraft.
airport terminal
The buildings that provide access to the airplanes (via gates).
concourses
Many early terminals were built in the1930s-1940’s and reflected the popular _____ of the time.
art deco style architecture
- A type of airport terminal design that uses a long, narrow building with aircraft parked on both sides.
- offer high aircraft capacity and simplicity of design, but often result in a long distance from the check-in counter to the gate.
PIER TERMINAL DESIGN
- Most large international airports have piers, including Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Frankfurt International Airport, London Heathrow Airport.
A type of airport terminal design where a building detached from other airport buildings, so that aircraft
can park around its entire circumference.
SATELLITE TERMINAL DESIGN
- Zurich Airport’s Gates E are connected with a subway.
- Sea-Tac International Airport has two rectangular satellite terminals connected by an automatic people mover.
The first airport to use a satellite terminal.
London
Gatwick Airport
The first airport to use an automatic people mover to connect the main terminal with a satellite.
Tampa International Airport
- a type of airport terminal design with aircraft parked on one side and cars on the other. - results in long walks for connecting passengers, but greatly reduces travel times between check-in and the aircraft.
SEMICIRCULAR TERMINAL DESIGN
- Charles de Gaulle International Airport (terminal 2), Mumbai Airport (terminal 2), Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, Kansas City Airport and Sapporo’s New Chitose Airport.
a type of airport typically equipped with customs and immigration facilities to handle international flights to and from other countries.
international airport
- A type of airport which handles only domestic flights
or flights within the same country. - don’t have customs and immigration facilities and are therefore incapable of handling flights to or from a foreign airport.
- normally have short runways which are sufficient to
handle short/medium haul aircraft and regional air traffic.
domestic airport
A type of airport that has several, types of aircraft except scheduled airliners. They serve business, charter and private planes.
general aviation airport
an area where helicopters may land.
heliport
A type of airport that has been built to cater for discount airlines such as Ryanair.
low cost airport
A type of airport that has an operating control tower.
controlled airport
A type of airport that does not have an operating control tower.
uncontrolled airport
Responsible for providing for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic at airports where the type of operations and/or volume of traffic requires such a service.
Air Traffic Control (ATC)
one of the world’s oldest
continually operating commercial airports.
Sydney Airport (IATA: SYD; ICAO; YSSY)
In August 1919, It was the first airport to
operate scheduled international commercial services, but it was closed and supplanted by Croydon Airport in March 1920.
Hounslow Heath Aerodrome
IATA/ICAO code
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila, Philippines)
MNL (RPLL)
IATA/ICAO code
El Arish International Airport (El Arish, Egypt)
AAC (HEAR)
IATA/ICAO code
Albuquerque International Sunport (Albuquerque, New
Mexico, United States)
ABQ (KABQ)
IATA/ICAO code
Albany International Airport (Albany, New York, United
States)
ALB (KALB)
IATA/ICAO code
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
KUL (WMKK)
IATA/ICAO code
Dubai International Airport
DXB (OMDB)
IATA/ICAO code
Incheon International Airport
ICN (RKSI)
IATA/ICAO code
Doha International Airport
DIA (OTBD)
IATA/ICAO code
Kansai International Airport
KIX (RJBB)
