DEFINITION:

Contains all sub-domains concerned with airports operators, their flight operations and their interactions with ATM, their processes to handle the traffic, passengers and baggage.

(Source: ACARE Domain 709)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Airport Operations: Airport Operations Studies: studies of aspects of airport operations relevant to ATM,
   and improvements to Airport-ATM interworking, including interworking among, En-route/TMA ATC, Tower
   ATC, Ground Movement Control, Apron Management, Terminal Operations, hub operations, hub feeding.

Comments: Airport Operations, Terminal Operations, ATC-Airport planning & co-ordination, Handling Agents,
Apron Management, Stand Management, Terminal Operations.

2. Vertical Take-off and landing traffic handling.
3. Airport Architecture, design and new concepts: Airport organisation and design, Cluster of airports, holistic
   design, terminal organisation
4. Airport Passenger and baggage handling Processes: Movement of passengers inside the building, role of
   the passenger, information of the passenger. Baggage handling processes.
5. Inter-modality: Interface with other modes of transport: train, hub feeder, road, etc…