Comparison of Administrative and Organizational Structures, Airside, and Landside Infrastructure of

Hong Kong International Airport: A Brief Overview

Use All Available Information To Assess Hk Airport And Changi Airport Administrative And Organizational Structures.

The Analysis Must Base On The Comparison Of The Airport Planning And Management Differences Between Hk Airport And Changi Airports.

Investigate And Describe The Two Airport’s (Hk Airport And Changi Airport) Airside And Landside Infrastructure, Annual Operational And Financial Data.

The HK airport is the International Airport of Hong Kong. The Airport was first inaugurated on 6^th July 1998 and it is connecting around 220 worldwide destinations by around 120 airlines. The Hong Kong international airport has received around 80 awards of best airports in the world. This international airport has two runways and it has over 230 shops and 60 restaurants (Lam et al 2018). The Hong Kong International airport was designed by Lord Norman Foster was a British architect. According to the estimate of IATA, the airport will handle 102 million passengers by the year 2030. To meet the growing requirement, the airport authority of Hong Kong has come up with a plan that has outlined the plans of development in the future of the airport. The board of the Airport authority of Hong King includes the chairperson of the board, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary for the Transport and Housing, Secretary for the financial services and the treasury, Director General of the civil aviation. The Hong Kong International Airport envelops an area of 1,255 hectares and there are 90 gates in all of boarding in the airport. The present users of the Airport include Emirates, Qantas, Singapore Airways, British Airways, Lufthansa and many more. The composition of the Airport includes Terminal 1, Terminal 2, North Satellite Concourse, Midfield Concourse and several different buildings in the Airport (Hon et al 2019). The Airport Authority of Hong Kong has several plans to develop the Airport of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong’s Airport Authority has decided a master plan that will be implemented by the year 2030. The master plan will consist of two-runway system in the Airport and a system of three-runway in the International airport. The Airport Authority of Hong Kong handles Hong Kong activities of Airport. The Airport Authority of Honk Kong is a body of statutory that is possessed by the Hong Kong government. The International Airport of Hong Kong has two different runways those are parallel to each other. The International Airport of Hong Kong was busiest for the traffic of the passengers in the year 2010 in the continent of Asia.

The Administrative and Organizational Structure of Hong Kong International Airport

The Fire fighting and the rescue services those are present within the Airport of Hong Kong are covered by the Fire Contingent of Airport. The Contingent has 282 members in all and they have two different fire stations that do the operations of rescue. The contingent has 14 appliances of fire that can respond to the various incidents within 2 minutes. Two rescue boats with high capacity and the eight speedboats support them (Wan and Zhang 2018). Those are allocated two ambulances at each of the fire stations of the International airport. The Flying Service of Government offers long and short-range services and the search of rescue, support of police, medical examination and flight for general purpose for the Government. The Airport also offers various types of facilities to the passengers.

There are various types of committees that handle the operations of the airport. The committees include Finance and Audit Committee, Business, Committee of Development, Committee of Human Resource and Remuneration and the Committee of NCD. Various executive directors handle the Airport (Eng and Sullivan 2018). These include the Executive Director for the development of property, Executive Director for the Commercial, Executive Directors for the operations of the Airport, Executive Director for the Engineering and Technology, Executive Director for Finance and Executive Director for the Third runway.

The Singapore Changi Airport that is also known as the Changi Airport is known as a  civilian Airport and this airport is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. The Airport is situated in Changi that is at the eastern corner of the country of Singapore (Lee and Miller 2019). The kind of the Airport is military and public and the owner of the airport is the Government of Singapore. The Airport servers more than around 100 airlines those are flying to around 380 cities. The Airport consists of four terminals. The Airport also consists of a luxury terminal named as the CIP terminal. By the year 2030, a fresh terminal that is terminal 5 will be ready for utilisation and this terminal is likely to handle about 50 million passengers per year.

The Board of Director operates the Changi Airport. The Board of Directors Consists of the chairman and the chief executive officer, Non-chief Executive Director and the members of the Board that handles the operations of the Airport (Neo 2019). The management of Airport is the team that administers the requirements those are operational of the Airport of Changi. The responsibility consists of making sure that the operations are effective, establishing safety, measures of security and many more. Their task is also to provide excellent services to the customers. The management of the Airport consists of the position of Operations of Airside, Management of Airside, Operations Strategy and Planning of Airport, Management of Facility, System and Procedure Innovation, Technology and Corporate IT and Experience of Passengers. Their job is to manage the airport and to see that the customers are having no problem and providing the customers with excellent services (Henderson 2017). 

The Airport Group of Changi manages the security and the safety of the airport (Sailauov and Zhong 2019). The Emergency Service Division of the Airport handles the fire fighting and the emergency services and the Emergency Services of Airport handles all the instances of fire fighting and the rescues that happen within the Airport.

Today, the Airport of Changi is known for its passenger experience that has become a synonym with the global connectivity, distinctive and global connectivity. The customers are rising day by day in the Airport and the challenges of the Airport are to raise the standard of the Airport higher.

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