Many airports suffer from peak-load demand problems. To meet unconstrained demand at peak periods, they often invest in … congestion at airport terminals. The results suggest that a situation in which airports differentiate charges by peak and off …

costs and benefits of security measures to decide the optimal security measures to airports. Monte-Carlo simulation methods … efforts to further protect airports are sensible expenditures. Indeed, some relaxation of the measures already in place may …

paper examines the ways in which BAA (formerly the British Airports Authority) has improved efficiency in the management of … airport waste. The paper also considers why, despite these improvements, UK airports still lag behind some European airports …

This paper describes a simple method for comparing airports based on their accessibility to regional, continental or … global air transport networks, using a variety of different measures of traffic. The method is applied to all Irish and UK … airports for the years 2000, 2003 and 2005 and compares the performance of these airports in serving the UK/Ireland, Western …

This article focuses on the potential of airports to aid regeneration of depressed areas rather than their more widely … obtain jobs at airports. Airports with good air services can help less buoyant areas to be short listed by potential inward …

passenger airports, the paper discusses the nature, prevalence and consequences of current benchmarking practices in airports …

financial and economic performance studies. The research uses a sample of 73 airports, or airport operators, from all over the … consists almost entirely of North American airports, one is dominated by European airports and one has a mixture of European … and other (non-North American) airports. It is concluded that such an approach may indeed prove useful, not only just in …

This paper investigates the relationship between governance structures and the market orientation of airports. The … focus is on Europe's peripheral areas, where airports tend to be publicly owned and operated as an independent entity or as … independently operated airports compared to system-operated airports and that independent governance structures, market …

transport capacity comes the issue of proper fiscal management of income derived by airports and air navigation services … providers. Airports are showing much success at earning income from shopping malls, car parks, boutiques and other similar … airport revenue in the late eighties to 52% today. Airports are keen on using their commercial revenues to help cover the …