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This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a series of case studies. This new edition covers the most recent examples of high quality, technically advanced designs from the Far East, Europe and North America.

This book will be a source of inspiration and guiding principles for those who design, commission or manage airport buildings.

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By far the most comprehensive book on the subject, the completely new Second Edition of Airport Operations updates the many developments in this fast-changing industry. The book provides a broad perspective on the effects of deregulation, privatization, and commercialization. Thoroughly illustrated, it examines the most current practices in airport security and terminal access, cargo relations, noise control, scheduling issues, and more. It is equally valuable to aviation educators and students as well as to airport personnel. ... Read more

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Great for Aviation Management Students
Im planning to go into Aviation Management and this is a great book that goes over everything that happens at an airport and how to run an airport!! Great book!!

Very comphrensive to all areas of airport operations
This book is an excellent text to all airport related personnels. I found it's particularly useful to people working in airport and/or aviation management who want to gain more in-depth understanding to all areas ofairport operations. This book can also serve as in-house classroom trainingtext for airline personnel. A highly recommended one!

A valuable book for any transport researcher
This book provides a thorough analysis in all facets of airport operations and provides the reader with a logistical insight that is unmatched.Whilethe book provides a great overview, it lacks information particularly onair cargo development and facility planning at airports.While the growthin air cargo traffic significantly outpaces passenger growth, air cargodevelopment issues at airports become more significant.Air cargodevelopment issues must be addressed by airport authorities.This bookonly makes scant reference to this.However, "AirportOperations" is a valuable book to all airport authorities, consultantsand transport researchers.No doubt, a very timely piece of information.

A very complete, accurate, and timely explanation of Airport
This is a great source of information and very clear definitions of many of the key issues relating to Airport Management and Operations. Although written primarily from the European and Asia Pacific Airport and Airlineperspectives, the author has worked very hard to include North Americanissues and examples.As The Airport Industry moves continually towardsprivatization, these differences will move to the background and be lessobvious; and less important. This is a great starting place for theresearcher or the occasional affectionato

I've based my studies on that. Amazing amount of Knowledge.
Don't be afraid of the great amount of number data. It's all understandable ... Read more

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This world we live in is a pretty grim place. It's tough to make a living. At any moment we may get blown up, down or sideways by the atom bomb. The day after tomorrow may never come, and on top of all this, TV commercials are getting worse and worse. It seems that our only salvation is a sense of humor, so we give you "The Sloths ..." a very unserious yarn._

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The importance of the Cid as Spain's bulwark against the Moors of
the eleventh century is exceeded by his importance to his modern
countrymen as the epitome of the noble and vigorous qualities that
made Spain great. Menendez y Pelayo has called him the symbol of
Spanish nationality in virtue of the fact that in him there were
united sobriety of intention and expression, simplicity at once
noble and familiar, ingenuous and easy courtesy, imagination
rather solid than brilliant, piety that was more active than
contemplative, genuine and soberly restrained affections, deep
conjugal devotion, a clear sense of justice, loyalty to his
sovereign tempered by the courage to protest against injustice to
himself, a strange and appealing confusion of the spirit of
chivalry and plebeian rudeness, innate probity rich in vigorous
and stern sincerity, and finally a vaguely sensible delicacy of
affection that is the inheritance of strong men and clean blood
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