CARGO AND FREIGHT SERVICES

In addition to people, airports also move cargo around the clock. Cargo airlines have their own on-site and adjacent infrastructure to transfer parcels between ground and air. International airports also have areas where export cargo has to be stored after customs clearance and prior to loading on the aircraft. Similarly, import cargo that is offloaded must be inbound before the consignee decides to take delivery. Areas have to be kept aside for examination of export and import cargo by the airport authorities. Designated areas, or sheds, are given to other airlines or freight forward ring agencies. Every cargo terminal has a land-side and an air-side. The land-side is where the exporters and importers, through either their agents or by themselves, deliver or collect shipments while the air-side is where loads are moved to or from the aircraft. In addition, our cargo terminals are divided into distinct areas - export, import and interline or transshipment.

SUPPORT SERVICES

Aircraft maintenance, pilot services, aircraft rental, and hangar rental are most often performed by a fixed base operator (FBO). At our major airports, particularly those used as hubs, our airlines operate their own support facilities.

Many of our large airports are located near railway routes for seamless connection of multi-model transport. It is also common to connect an airport and a city with rapid transit, light rail lines or other non-road public transport systems. Such a connection lowers risk of missed flights due to traffic congestion. Our larger airports usually have access also through controlled-access highways (free-ways or motorways) from which motor vehicles enter either the departure loop or the arrival loop.