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SEEMAB ALI
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Airport and its types

Airport
Airport, also called air terminal, aerodrome, or airfield, site and installation for the takeoff
and landing of aircraft. An airport usually has paved runways and maintenance facilities and
serves as a terminal for passengers and cargo.

The largest airports in the world employ more than 100,000 workers each. They are immensely
complex entities with regard to the physical facilities that they comprise, the organizations that
are active within their boundaries, and the services that are provided in conjunction with their
operation.

An airport solely serving helicopters is called a heliport. An airport for use

by seaplanes and amphibious aircrafts called a seaplane base. Such a base typically includes a
stretch of open water for takeoffs and landings, and seaplane docks for tying-up.

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Types of Airport

International Airport:

An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling
passengers to travel between countries. International airports are usually larger than domestic
airports and often feature longer runways and facilities to accommodate the heavier aircraft
commonly used for international and intercontinental travel. International airports often also
host domestic flights.

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Buildings, operations and management have become increasingly sophisticated since the mid-
20th century, when international airports began to provide infrastructure for international civilian
flights. Detailed technical standards have been developed to ensure safety and common coding
systems implemented to provide global consistency. The physical structures that serve millions
of individual passengers and flights are among the most complex and interconnected in the
world. By the second decade of the 21st century, there were over 1,200 international airports and
almost two billion international passengers along with 50 million metric tons of cargo were
passing through them annually.
Domestic Airport:

A domestic airport is an airport that handles only domestic flights—flights within the
same country. Domestic airports do not have customs and immigration facilities and so cannot
handle flights to or from a foreign airport.

These airports often have short runways sufficient to handle short or medium haul aircraft and
regional air traffic. Security check / metal detectors are used in most countries, but such checks
were for domestic flights installed in many cases decades after checks for international
flights.Most municipal airports in Canada and the United States are of this classification.
At international airports in Canada, there are domestic terminals that handle flights within
Canada (flying from one Canadian city to another).

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In the United Kingdom, an example of a domestic airport is Wick Airport, which operates
frequent flights to other Scottish airports. Some small countries or regions do not have any public
domestic airports, or even public domestic flights, due to its size and political reasons,
e.g. Belgium, HongKong, Kuwait, Macau, Lithuania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, and
the United Arab Emirates.
Regional Airport:

A regional airport is an airport serving traffic within a relatively small or lightly populated
geographical area. A regional airport usually does not have customs and immigration facilities to
process traffic between countries. In Canada regional airports usually, service connections within
Canada and some flights to the United States. A few U.S. regional airports, some of which
actually call themselves international airports, may have customs and immigration facilities
staffed on an as-needed basis, but the vast majority serve domestic traffic only.

Aircraft using these airports tend to be smaller business jets, private aircraft and regional
airliners of both turboprops propelled or regional jetliner varieties. These flights usually go a
shorter distance to a larger regional hub. These airports usually have shorter runways, which
exclude heavy planes with much fuel.

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