advantages and disadvantages of different airport ground handling models
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different airport ground handling models
Introduction
The system of airport ground handling is different to each country. The most of countries are operating airport ground handling system based on U.S model, EU model or third party model. This report is presenting comparison of U.S model, EU model or Third party model and also, presents Incheon International airport, South Korea as a part of analysing which system has been adopted and how ground handling performs.
Define the key ground handling models are used around the world
One of the key activities for airport operation is ground handling. The ground handling can be defined as shown Error: Reference source not found (Ashford 2013). The ground handling is different from country to country and it is also different to airport to airport within same country. The ground handling operation has been developed as air travel passenger increases and becoming complex (Mudyawabikwa 2011). There are three major models is used around world for ground handling defined (Ashford 2013);
U.S model
EU model
Third party model
U.S model is very unique since small proportion of ground handling is performed by independent companies. Most of ground handlings performed in the U.S is managed by
dedicated airline such as United Airline and American Airline (SH&E 2004). It does not mean all U.S airport runs this way as mentioned before, there are independent companies, Swissport which does main stream of ground handling in U.S as shown in Error: Reference source not found (swissport 2015).
The Error: Reference source not found represent simple ground handling model which refers to U.S model as airline takes main role of ground handling operation (Smith 2001). US model is based on airline ground handling and the airline provide services and equipment.
EU model is different to U.S model in terms of operation handler (Ashford 2013). Airport runs ground handling service by
Introduction
The system of airport ground handling is different to each country. The most of countries are operating airport ground handling system based on U.S model, EU model or third party model. This report is presenting comparison of U.S model, EU model or Third party model and also, presents Incheon International airport, South Korea as a part of analysing which system has been adopted and how ground handling performs.
Define the key ground handling models are used around the world
One of the key activities for airport operation is ground handling. The ground handling can be defined as shown Error: Reference source not found (Ashford 2013). The ground handling is different from country to country and it is also different to airport to airport within same country. The ground handling operation has been developed as air travel passenger increases and becoming complex (Mudyawabikwa 2011). There are three major models is used around world for ground handling defined (Ashford 2013);
U.S model
EU model
Third party model
U.S model is very unique since small proportion of ground handling is performed by independent companies. Most of ground handlings performed in the U.S is managed by
dedicated airline such as United Airline and American Airline (SH&E 2004). It does not mean all U.S airport runs this way as mentioned before, there are independent companies, Swissport which does main stream of ground handling in U.S as shown in Error: Reference source not found (swissport 2015).
The Error: Reference source not found represent simple ground handling model which refers to U.S model as airline takes main role of ground handling operation (Smith 2001). US model is based on airline ground handling and the airline provide services and equipment.
EU model is different to U.S model in terms of operation handler (Ashford 2013). Airport runs ground handling service by
References: Jiang, 2015, Airport/Airline Operations, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, viewed 21 March 2015, <rmit.edu.au>.