The Main Issues of Frankfurt Airport Management Faced

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- Analysis of the impacts

- Economic impacts

As Frankfurt Airport is the main airport in Germany, it has contributed $22.3 billion to Germany in 2013. It has a central economic effect to the host city. Apart from the supply of aviation services, also produce goods and service in the airport and neighborhood. It has caused a multiplier effect, direct effects, indirect effects and induced effects to the city. The airport became a location for business development, including airlines, freight forwarder, flight catering, fuel services, restaurant, hotels, manufacturer’s services and retail. These economic activities are carried out by the airport operation. It has created a large number of job opportunity, employment and business that can directly stimulate the GPA. The activities increased the economic growth in Frankfurt. On the other way, Frankfurt Airport could cause a great damage to the economy of the city. The airport has handled a dozen of million passengers and freights a year with a large number of airport related job. Once it is collapse, it could cause an incredible economic loss to the Frankfurt. When the demand to the airport is lower, airport might have to cut the cost to make better profit. When the cost has been decreased, it could result in a great loss because of the multiplier effect. There might have a lot of staff lost their jobs and the related industries might have affected as well, such as tourism and food and beverage industry. That could bring a negative economic impact to the city and resident.

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- Social impact

As a well developed airport was built in Frankfurt, it could bring both positive and negative impacts to the society. It has brought a series of consequences to the citizen on the neighbor. Resident entitles to get a lower price and convenient departure flight off to other countries. The airport has improved the local transport access and made the place seem less remote. The local have lower transport costs than ground alternatives which improves the contact with friends and relatives. The airport has also carried out the tourism, that makes the city became well known and developed. More travelers have visited the city, government would like to put more investment in the social facilities to build up a good image, it could bring a better development to the city. The quality of housing and social infrastructure would be raised. The airport has also provided a lot of related job to citizen. It could reduce the level of unemployment. Therefore, Frankfurt Airport has carried out different of positive impact to the society. But, there are still disadvantages to the society. To meet the demand and expectation of the users, government and companies have invested many of projects in the industry. To expand the capacity of airport, they have imposes a large area for the use of airport. This could cause a part of resident losing their original living place, therefore, they might feel the loss of connection with friends and properties. There is opposite voice against the use of the land. Some of them might feel the insecurity of being in the city, they might seek another city as a living place. So, the development of Frankfurt Airport has brought both advantages and disadvantages to the society.

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- Environmental impact

The build of Frankfurt Airport has carried out substantial of environment issues to the local, and most of them are negatives. The main environmental impacts can be referred to noise pollution, emissions, water pollution and use, and wildlife and heritage damage. The greatest environmental problem generated by airports is noise. This applies particularly to Frankfurt Airport. It is located in the middle of high density of population. The operation of aircraft posed a big trouble to the nearby residents. With 51 million passengers, approximately 1.9 million tones of freight, Frankfurt Airport has around 1,260 aircraft take off and land at the airport each day. Therefore, there were a few demonstrations organized by the local to against the noise pollution. Especially when Frankfurt Airport was building its fourth runway, the opposite voice lead to the policy changed of the authority, they have shorten the length of the fourth runway. Plus, the emissions are created at the airport by the airport movement. It releases different green house gas to the environment, such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and various hydrocarbons. They are the main factors of causing climate change, and it also causes the air pollution. It may decrease the quality of living to the resident. Besides, the construction of the airport may damage the features of the city. The land use and heritages damage decreased the natural. Still, there are positive impacts that the airport has brought to the environment. The re-structure of industry has changed the external environment. It has increased the value of land use. The intensive infrastructure has invested in the airport area, residents entitle to use those facilities. Frankfurt Airport has brought significant impacts on the environment.

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Summary

Frankfurt Airport is one of the significant airports in the world. It operates with large number of passenger and freight flight per day. The achievement of the Frankfurt Airport implies the successful of the airport management. However, there are still some main issues that are facing by it. The security loophole and the airports competition are the main management issues. Security problem could threat the safety of passengers, personnel and properties. And the intense competition among the airport could weaken its profit margin. They could cause a dominate loss to the airport, but through a series of management strategies, it could be eased or eliminated. As Frankfurt is a large hub, there are economic, social and environmental impacts to the Frankfurt city. It has brought a great impact to the growth of economy. It has created a large number of employment. And it has brought great impact to the related industries such as hotel and tourism. At the mean time, the construction of airport has generated a lot of pollution to the society like noise and air pollution. But it has tightened the connection between the resident. Frankfurt Airport has achieved