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GROUND SERVICE
PROVIDERS

The Who, What, Where and When of
Airport Operations
As airports bring more airlines and ground handlers into a limited space,
the civil community of the airport can turn into a wild west scenario, with
accountability giving way to chaos. Mitigating that possibility are airport
operating licenses.
By Walker Jaroch

I

t's often been said airports are like miniature
cities, with airlines, ground support crews and
other third parties coexisting under the borough
of the airport. Each unit operates independently, with standards of their own, to meet the goal
of providing quick and satisfactory service to the
flying public who pass through these little cities
each day by the thousands.
But just like their full-size counterparts, no
one entity at an airport can be completely autonomous in the city, living solely by their own rules.
Anarchical airlines don't fly.
Helping to set the standards and expectations
of both the airport and those operating as a part
of it are airport operating licenses (AOLs), which
Stuart Matheson, director of UK-based Aviation

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Support Group (ASG), likens to the rules of a local
municipality. ASG works in collaboration with the
International Air Transport Association (IATA),
which represents all major airlines around the
world, and publishes the international standards
in Civil Aviation.
"You know the rules that you have when you
live in your town? Things like when you put
your bins out and how fast you can drive around
schools - the kind of community rules that we
all live by in our usual day to day lives - they're
essentially what an airport operating license is.
It's where all the stakeholders around an airport
have an expectation of behaviors as to how you all
work together at an airport," Matheson describes.
Matheson says that AOLs have been prevalent



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Industry Expert Column - Ground Handling
What's the Plan for Your PM?
The Who, What, Where and When of Airport Operations
Alternative Energy's Emergence in Europe
Securing a Diverse and Skilled Workforce Amid Labor-Related Headwinds
Safe Inflation that Won't Fall Flat
Product Hangar
Editor's Note: Time to Recognize our Finest
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