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Table 11.2 Airside and landside service considerations
Landside Airside

• Ground passenger • Aircraft apron handling
handling including: • Airside passenger
– Check-in transfer
– Security • Baggage and cargo
– Customs and handling
immigration • Aircraft fuelling
– Information • Cabin cleaning and
– Catering catering
– Cleaning and • Engine starting
maintenance maintenance
– Shopping and • Aircraft de-icing
concessionary facilities • Runway inspection and
– Ground transportation maintenance
• Management and • Firefighting and
administration of airport emergency services
staff • Air traffic control
Other basic airport requirements are:
• Navigation aids – normally comprising an Instrument
Landing System (ILS) to guide aircraft from 15 miles
from the runway threshold. Other commonly installed
aids are:
– Visual approach slope indicator system (VASIS)
– Precise approach path indicator (PAPI)
• Airfield lighting – White neon lighting extending up to
approximately 900 m before the runway threshold,
threshold lights (green), ‘usable pavement end’ lights
(red) and taxiway lights (blue edges and green
centreline).

permitting simultaneous operation, is required.
Airports with two simultaneous runways can
frequently handle over 50 million passengers per
year, with the main constraint being, again, the
provision of adequate terminal space.
Layouts with four parallel runways can have
operational capacities of more than one million
aircraft movements per year and annual
passenger movements in excess of 100 million.
The main capacity constraints of such facilities
are in the provision of sufficient airspace for
controlled aircraft movements and in the provi­
sion of adequate access facilities. Most large
international airport designs face access
problems before they reach the operational
capacity of their runways.