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The Impact Of Airports On Their Surrounding Environment A Study On Manchester ...

The Impact of Airports on their Surrounding Environment
A study on Manchester Airport
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Introduction
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The Impact of Manchester Airport on its Surroundings
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Airport Management Policies
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Conclusions and Recommendations
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Bibliography
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1. Introduction
The number of airports that a country has sometimes reveals more about the competitiveness and affluence of a society than other, more publicised, economic indicators. To illustrate, The USA has close to 15,000 airports servicing 300 million people, while comparative figures for China stand at 486 airports for a population of 1.3 billion. Today, as the Chinese economy shoots towards superpower status, the volume of air travellers and the number of airports are increasing exponentially. Even as numerous airports are either under construction or in the process of expansion in China, daily flights handled at Beijing airport have gone up to approximately a thousand per day; a tenfold increase in just five years. Airports are at the very heart of today's global village. They form an integral part of the infrastructural core, responsible not just for promoting travel and tourism, but for far reaching economic and social progress.
Over the years, airports have grown from being small clusters of aircraft hangers, fringing strips of sun baked tarmacs, to huge and frenetically busy establishments, occupying large tracts of land and peopled by thousands of workers; people who work 24/7, ensuring the efficient movement of passengers and freight. In fact airports like Schiphol at Amsterdam, or Vienna, in Austria, play roles crucial to the economies of the larger regions in which they are situated. Airports have come to be regarded as drivers of business life and economic growth. In fact, even a single day's interruption in the working pattern of a major airport like Heathrow, regardless of reasons that could vary from snow or fog to disgruntled catering employees, is considered to be news of global significance, important enough to be flashed on television screens across the world. Airports in the UK are mostly owned or managed by business corporations. These are professionally managed companies that assume responsibility for all facilities required for passenger and freight traffic and earn revenues from airline companies, as well as through other income streams like shops, restaurants and car parks.
The explosive growth in air traffic in the UK has increased pressure on existing airport facilities and necessitated the implementation of huge expansion plans.
Aviation is the fastest growing transport mode. In the UK, passenger numbers have increased by 310% in 25 years, and the number of flights by 166%. The DfT forecasts that by 2020 the number of passengers using the UK airports will be around 400 million compared to 200 million today a doubling.

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