TLMT415 - Airport Operations

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe sources of funding for airports and airport funding policies in the United States.
2. Outline the various airport types and roles.
3. Examine airport master planning process and its objectives.
4. Describe the difference between economic impact and cost/benefit studies and their applications.
5. Identify the majjor environmental impact issues faced by airports, particularly noise issues, and the applicable regulatory requirements and argue advantages/disadvantages.
6. Define and contrast the various land use planning and control options available to airport managers to deal with noise.
7. Identify and describe the important airside and landside facilities and services found at large U.S. airports.
8. Express the nature of the ground access problem at large U.S. airports.
9. Recount how airport capacity and delay are measured.
10. Recognize an organizational chart representing the management structure and organization for an airport authority.
11. Identify and explain the kinds of activities normally handled by airport operations staff.
12. Present the important airport operational regulations covered in FAR Part 139: Certification of Air Carrier Airports & 49CFR part 1500: Airport Security.
13. Express the public relations concerns of airport managers.
14. Name and contrast the different types of airport use agreements, and sources of airport revenues and expenses. Develop an airport annual budget.
15. Detail the difference betweeen economic impact and cost/benefit studies and their applications.
16. Understand the impotance of SATS and its effect on airport management.

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