A master plan represents the strategic vision of an airport’s future development, based on the predicted demand, existing infrastructural assets (airside and landside), possible extensions options, and numerous other considerations (environmental, political, financial and regulatory).

The main challenge of developing a sound master plan is to achieve a flexible, expandable and modular design to react to changes in terms of demand or airline requirements.

A master plan is linked with the airport’s business plan and can be a powerful communication instrument to the involved shareholders and stakeholders. It defines a set of commonly agreed principles by which future development will be brought forward.

• Civil Aviation Authorities Middle and Top Management Staff
• Airport and Airline staff related to Middle & Top Management and Operations
• Participants conducting Airport planning and Design
• All personnel planning to get a strategic overview of the aviation industry
• Senior airport management who are to manage a master plan.
• Strategic development managers
• Airport business managers
• Airfield and terminal planners and project managers
• Civil engineering managers, city and town planners
• Environmental and sustainability managers
• National regulators

• Understand the ownership characteristics of airports
• Exploring the recommended airport organization chart & the various jobs that exist at airports
• Describe the various facilities located on an airport’s airfield and types of Airport Runways
• Discuss how air traffic control affects airport management & commercial air carrier operations
• Describe differences in security procedures between commercial service and general aviation airports
• Define the various Aeronautical and Non- Aeronautical revenues at airports
• Describe the complex relationships between airport management and the airlines that serve their airports
• Discuss the impacts airport activity has on environmental Performance Measures quality
• Gain insight into the various types of airport planning studies& the factors that are to be considered in terminal area planning
• Describe the Concept & Implementation phases of the A-CDM

Airport strategic planning

• Forecasting demand
• Planning ground access
  – Ground-side interfaces
  – Off-site and intra-site access

Terminal capacity management

Air-side capacity, planning and management

• Aircraft classification
• Annexe 14
• Apron design

Capacity management using computer simulation

Passenger terminal design and capacity management

• Demand analysis
• Terminal plan concepts
• Passenger processing systems

Concession planning

• Performing market research
• Calculating supportable space

Airport operations support and security systems
Facilitation and security

• Passenger baggage systems

A Complex and Dynamic Business

• Airport Economics
• Regulatory Framework
• Airport Organisation
• Airport Strategic Planning
• Airport Master Planning
• Airport Operations Planning
• Master plan history and legal aspects (ICAO, IATA, and National Requirements)
• Strategic plan objectives and Service Level requirements
• Airport Traffic Forecasting
• Demand / Capacity “Gap” Assessment
• Design concept appraisals
• Multiple-Account Evaluation and decision-making criteria
• Stakeholder engagement strategy
• Capital and life-cycle programming
• Master Plan organization and skill capacity
• Airport Master Plan case study exercise