3 KINDS OF AIRPORT

1. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
 typically equipped with customs and immigration facilities to handle international flights
to and from other countries.
 usually larger, and often feature longer runways and facilities to accommodate the large
aircraft commonly used for international or intercontinental travel.
 often host domestic flights (flights which occur within the country) in addition to
international flights.
 Many international airports also serve as "hubs", or places where no direct flights may
land and passengers switch planes.
 have many airlines represented, and many of these are often foreign.

2. DOMESTIC AIRPORT
 handles only domestic flights or flights within the same country.
 don't have customs and immigration facilities and are therefore incapable of handling
flights to or from a foreign airport.
 normally have short runways which are enough to handle short/medium haul aircraft
and regional air traffic.
 Have in many countries did not have any security check / metal detector, but such
checks have been added in recent years.

3. GENERAL AVIATION
 has several, types of aircraft except scheduled airliners.
 They serve business, charter and private planes. Many are small and can be used only by
propeller- driven light aircraft and helicopters.
 some have runways long enough to take jet. A heliport is an area where helicopters may
land.

4. LOW COST AIRPORT

 in the early years of the 21st century, low cost terminals, or even entire airports have been
built to cater for discount airlines (low cost airlines) such as Ryanair in Europe

2 TYPES OF AIRPORTS

1. CONTROLLED AIRPORT
 has an operating control tower. Air traffic control (ATC) is responsible for providing for the
safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic at airports where the type of operations
and/or volume of traffic requires such a service.
 Pilots operating from a controlled airport are required to maintain two-way radio
communication with air traffic controllers, and to acknowledge and comply with their
instructions.
 Pilots must advise ATC if they cannot comply with the instructions issued and request
amended instructions. A pilot may deviate from an air traffic instruction in an emergency
but must advise air traffic of the deviation as soon as possible.
2. UNCONTROLLED AIRPORT
 does not have an operating control tower.
 Two-way radio communications are not required, although it is a good operating practice for
pilots to transmit their intentions on the specified frequency for the benefit of other traffic
in the area.
 Aircraft pilots follow recommended operations, and communications procedures instead of
receiving instructions from an Air traffic controller for operating at an airport without a
control tower. The exact procedures vary from country to country, but they may include
standard arrival and departure procedures, as well as a common communications
phraseology by radio transmissions over a common frequency. For example, a Common
Traffic Advisory Frequency is recommended for radio communication and are used in the
United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.