Separate Airports for International and Domestic Flights Operations.

[prashantakerkar]

Is it mandatory or compulsory to have separate airports to be built / constructed for International and Domestic Flight Operations according to International Aviation Rules ?.

This will Facilitate smooth flight operations management as well as tackling the problem of space constraint for many airplanes (local and international planes) landing and departure.

Previously, many years back, there were single airport/s allowing both domestic and international flight operations.

Examples :

Different Airports for Local and International Airports viz

International Air carriers / operators viz Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Lufthansa etc

Local Air carriers / operators (In India) viz Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways, GoAir etc

Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar

[The SSK]

Segregating domestic and international traffic has been tried in a number of cases and has usually failed miserably. Montreal was a disaster, Tokyo didn’t work too well, likewise Paris. Moscow.

The reason is that the global networks are built on the hub and spoke model. Longhaul airlines need shorthaul feed and that includes domestic. Connecting passengers don’t want to trek from one airport to another, they will fly to a foreign hub and make their connection there.

A couple of exceptions are Washington National and New York La Guardia, where there are statutory limitations on the nonstop distance that can be flown from them, which rules out international flights.

Many airports of course have separate terminals for domestic and international flights. Domestic doesn’t need all the infrastructure elements such as passport control and duty-free.

[prashantakerkar]

Thank you.

Do you feel there should be separate airports for International and Domestic
Flights and made as a mandatory rule by International Aviation industry ?

Advantages
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1. This will Facilitate smooth flight operations management.

2. Tackling the problem of space constraint for many airplanes (local and international planes) landing and departure. Space could be a Limitation for the airports if it is common as both international and local airplanes have to be landed in the same airport.

Summary
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If there is a common airport for both international and domestic airplane carriers, there has to be a Huge Infrastructure Space available for the Airport which can accommodate both types of travel i.e. local to country and outside the country. Having a single airport may have its own advantages as well.


Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar

[Phileas Fogg]

Previously, many years back, there were single airport/s allowing both domestic and international flight operations.

Really? ... Thanks for letting us know! :)

The majority of the world's locations (towns, cities, islands etc.) served by air only have one airport, how much more of this world needs concreting over unnecessarily and who's expected to pay for it?

[prashantakerkar]

Thank you.

Having a single airport for both international and domestic flights has its own advantages also.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar

[The SSK]

Generally, airlines do not like to be directed to particular airports. They want to go where thee traffic is, and if the traffic includes a lot of domestic passengers, that will be a major attraction. Attempts by national authorities to direct traffic to specific airports are often viewed with suspicion that a particular competitor may be getting an advantage. So traffic rules must be seen to be fair and apply equally to everybody.

Both Paris and London have had in the past an airports policy, ostensibly to separate traffic by the direction it is coming from and going to, in order to simplify the management of congested airspace. But in both cases ‘quality’ airlines tended to get directed to one airport and ‘the rest’ to the other one.

[Fairdealfrank]

Quote: "The reason is that the global networks are built on the hub and spoke model. Longhaul airlines need shorthaul feed and that includes domestic. Connecting passengers don’t want to trek from one airport to another, they will fly to a foreign hub and make their connection there.

A couple of exceptions are Washington National and New York La Guardia, where there are statutory limitations on the nonstop distance that can be flown from them, which rules out international flights.

Many airports of course have separate terminals for domestic and international flights. Domestic doesn’t need all the infrastructure elements such as passport control and duty-free."

DCA and LGA are additional domestic-only in addition to other airports in Washington (IAD and BWI) and New York (JFK and EWR) that are both domestic and international. This is because of the very large amount of domestic air travel in the USA.

It's not a pure split in the way of Tokyo (NRT and HND) or Montreal (YUL and YMQ) neither of which worked. In Tokyo both airports now do both
international and domestic and in Montreal, YUL does it all and YMQ does freight only.