Managing Airports presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge insight into today's international airport industry. This third edition reflects the huge changes in the management of airports today and tackles many of hte key issues such as: * the vast increase of air traffic and how can airport development cope with predicted levels of future demand. * Commercialisation and privatisation of airports and the emergence of new types of airport operators as the private airport industry has become more mature. * the increased number of airline alliancesand the new demands they place on the airport operators. * the growth of the low cost carrier sector and its impact on airport operations, in the US, Europe and also in Asia, South America and elsewhere. * dealing with the the major issues of security and the environmental impacts. Approaching management topics from a strategic and commercial perspective rather than from an operational and technical angle, the book provides an inn