addis ababa
AIRPORT OPERATIONS
ABSTRACT
Aviation industry of Africa is booming from the past few decades. African population is similar to the population of china in 1980 to which Africa contributes GDP 3% of global, whereas China 2% in 1980 (IATA, June 2013). China has now transformed into a powerful economy. Africa’s social and economic growth depends on the air transport (Airport World). Therefore airports have to adopt market changes, technological changes, economic downturn, and deregulation in order to make it more profitable, safe and reliable. The airports are being converted into business like entities. These have caused significance efforts in the way airport operates. Geographical location, infrastructure, reliability, connectivity, aeronautical, non-aeronautical revenues, airport charges etc has to be analyzed in detail to understand the way airport does business. To know this in depth, BOLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT of Addis Ababa, at the capital city of Ethiopia has been chosen. It is an existing hub in African continent which could emerge as the dominant player in the African Aviation market. Bole international airport was ranked 7th in the best airports award of SKYTRAX in 2012 .It is one of the top busiest airports in Africa which showed a passenger increase of 25% in 2011(we fly high, 2011). In this case study, the geographical location and demography is explored. Traffic and GDP growth influences the airport operations in a positive way. Then the infrastructure, facilities provided in the airport is studied in detail to get a wide knowledge about the airport operations of bole international airport. International connectivity and domestic connectivity from the hub is examined. Airport charges affect the airport operations as well as the passengers, so its influence is also noted. Then finally the commercial revenues are taken into consideration which plays a major role in the
ABSTRACT
Aviation industry of Africa is booming from the past few decades. African population is similar to the population of china in 1980 to which Africa contributes GDP 3% of global, whereas China 2% in 1980 (IATA, June 2013). China has now transformed into a powerful economy. Africa’s social and economic growth depends on the air transport (Airport World). Therefore airports have to adopt market changes, technological changes, economic downturn, and deregulation in order to make it more profitable, safe and reliable. The airports are being converted into business like entities. These have caused significance efforts in the way airport operates. Geographical location, infrastructure, reliability, connectivity, aeronautical, non-aeronautical revenues, airport charges etc has to be analyzed in detail to understand the way airport does business. To know this in depth, BOLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT of Addis Ababa, at the capital city of Ethiopia has been chosen. It is an existing hub in African continent which could emerge as the dominant player in the African Aviation market. Bole international airport was ranked 7th in the best airports award of SKYTRAX in 2012 .It is one of the top busiest airports in Africa which showed a passenger increase of 25% in 2011(we fly high, 2011). In this case study, the geographical location and demography is explored. Traffic and GDP growth influences the airport operations in a positive way. Then the infrastructure, facilities provided in the airport is studied in detail to get a wide knowledge about the airport operations of bole international airport. International connectivity and domestic connectivity from the hub is examined. Airport charges affect the airport operations as well as the passengers, so its influence is also noted. Then finally the commercial revenues are taken into consideration which plays a major role in the