Operations

What does it take to make an airport function smoothly? Largely invisible to airport passengers is a large team of people who work mostly outside the terminal.

Their primary goal: to ensure aircraft can land, take off and move around safely and efficiently. An airport’s operational system, and related planning, design and maintenance disciplines, includes terminal, apron, airfield and roadway planning and design; satellite navigation and enhancements to airport capacity; pavement design, construction and maintenance; signage, lighting and airfield markings; as well as airport maintenance systems.

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 News Clips from Centerlines:

• Self-service check-in options abound at Montréal airport. (June 2009)

• Growth of wireless technology (December 2008)

• After Comair, What Next? (January 2008)
• Denver reflects on lessons learned from storms of 2006 (Spring 2007)
• Vancouver's Runway Radar (Spring 2007)
• Springfield Airport’s ground handling service is off and running (Winter 2006)
• JFK’s T5 set to process unprecedented passenger numbers (Fall 2006)