The oldest and simplest layout for passenger terminals is the open apron design, in which aircraft park on the apron immediately adjacent to the terminal and passengers walk across the apron to board the aircraft by mobile steps. Terminal designs Open apron and linear designs
By using a “hub-and-spoke” network, airlines are able to increase the load factors on aircraft and to provide more frequent departures for passengers-at the cost, however, of inconvenient interchange at the hub. At a hub, aircraft arrive in waves, and passengers transfer between aircraft during the periods when these waves are on the ground. There is no need to provide parking or ground transportation to the city for such passengers they will, however, need transit lounges and other areas such as transit check-in desks.Īirports that receive a large number of transferring and transiting passengers are referred to as hubbing airports. These passengers have special needs but usually only on the airside of the terminal. At Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport in Georgia and at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, for example, two-thirds of all passengers transfer to other flights and do not visit the cities where the airports are sited. Some airports have a very high percentage of passengers who are either transiting the airport (i.e., continuing on the same flight) or transferring to another flight. Palma Airport, on the Spanish island of Majorca, has a landside that is designed to accommodate large numbers of charter tourists arriving and departing the airport by bus. Scheduled and charter passengers, meanwhile, tend to have very different needs in the terminal, especially at check-in and in the provision of ground transportation. The passenger terminal at Heathrow Airport near London, for example, was designed to a very high standard of space and decor to attract just this type of passenger. Business travelers tend to pay significantly higher fares, and airlines usually wish to provide a high quality of service in order to attract such traffic. Passengers are frequently classified as business or leisure, scheduled or charter, originating or destined, and transfer or transit. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Įero Saarinen: interior of the TWA terminal at JFK International Airport Marvin B.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them!
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