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Please note: Airport Operations was one of the seven separate FSF publications that were superseded by AeroSafety World in 2006. Some printed copies are still available, and issues dating back a number of years can be read online and downloaded through the links to the left. Use the search engine at the top of the page to locate issues with information about specific topics.

Although worldwide air traffic is expected to double during the next 10 to 15 years, airports in many parts of the world will be unable to keep pace with the predicted growth. Land costs and environmental restrictions are only two of many factors limiting airport expansion. In the United States, for example, only one new major airport has been built in the past 20 years.

Increases in airport capacity are likely to depend on technological measures that permit reduced separation between aircraft, simultaneous operations on parallel runways and more efficient movement of aircraft during ground operations, all of which will place more demands on air traffic control. The need for technological aids, such as modern radar systems, necessary to meet the demands of air traffic growth must be balanced with fiscal realities.

These factors create new safety issues, in addition to such ongoing issues as stress experienced by air traffic controllers and preparing disaster-response procedures for airport emergencies. Airport Operations has reported on technical problems that have hindered the detection of explosives at U.S. airports; the latest efforts to reduce bird-strike hazards at airports; an analysis of pushback accidents; and new developments in radar technology and satellite systems that promise to reduce runway incursions.

Airport Operations examines these and other safety issues that involve aircraft, air traffic control and airport personnel at a time when “the crowded skies” have given rise to “the crowded airport.”

Bimonthly. Established 1974. Two-color newsletter, 8-inch x 10-inch format, usually four to eight pages.

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