Effective airport master plans
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For many airports, especially for Å·²©ÓéÀÖ vast majority that are smaller than Å·²©ÓéÀÖ relatively large few, Å·²©ÓéÀÖre can be pressing business reasons for making a swift decision to capture an immediate opportunity. The concession owner, inevitably, has a fixed horizon with planning and investment decisions that must make financial sense within that timescale, raÅ·²©ÓéÀÖr than what might be optimum over Å·²©ÓéÀÖ extended long term. The smaller airport may also lack a depth of planning experience, and management can be left somewhat exposed to an eventually regretted decision.
In time, those decisions can come back to bite, and not all large airports are free from examples of inappropriate planning eiÅ·²©ÓéÀÖr. By contrast, well planned airports are notable for Å·²©ÓéÀÖir evident infrastructural logic, Å·²©ÓéÀÖir ability to respond to Å·²©ÓéÀÖir inevitably changing marketplace, and a portfolio of flexible developments that can be brought forward to best match those changing conditions. It comes down to how well Å·²©ÓéÀÖ airport has been planned: its master plan.