Question: What is an airport?
Answer: aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land

Question: What does ATC stand for?
Answer: air traffic control

Question: What do airports use to assure smooth traffic flow between departing and arriving aircraft?
Answer: traffic pattern

Question: What is an important concern in the operation of an airport?
Answer: Air safety

Question: How many commercial airports did the British Airports Authority originally operate?
Answer: eight

Question: What group took over the British Airports Authority in 2006?
Answer: Spanish Ferrovial consortium

Question: What group manages the Frankfurt Airport?
Answer: Fraport

Question: Who operates, through joint ventures, Indira Gandhi International Airport?
Answer: GMR Group

Question: What do landside areas include?
Answer: parking lots, public transportation train stations and access roads

Question: Airports are divided into what two areas?
Answer: landside and airside

Question: What do airside areas include?
Answer: all areas accessible to aircraft, including runways, taxiways and aprons

Question: Where can passengers purchase tickets?
Answer: terminals

Question: What is the waiting area which provide passengers access to aircraft?
Answer: concourses

Question: Most major airports provide commercial outlets for what?
Answer: products and services

Question: Where are most of these companies located in an airport?
Answer: within the departure areas

Question: Some of these companies include what type of businesses?
Answer: clothing boutiques and restaurants

Question: Are prices at these outlets generally higher or lower than street prices?
Answer: higher

Question: What are some services that are offered by VIP services?
Answer: express check-in and dedicated check-in counters

Question: These services are usually reserved for what class of passengers?
Answer: First and Business class

Question: What type of services are sometimes open to passengers who are members of a different airline's frequent flyer program?
Answer: Premium services

Question: For seamless connection of multimodal transport, where are many large airports located?
Answer: near railway trunk routes

Question: What does MBTA stand for?
Answer: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Question: It is also common to connect an airport and a city with what?
Answer: rapid transit, light rail lines or other non-road public transport systems

Question: It is common for airports to provide moving walkways and what?
Answer: buses

Question: What airport has a tram that takes people through the concourses and baggage claim?
Answer: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Question: Name one airport that offers inter-terminal transportation.
Answer: Mexico City International Airport

Question: What is generally agreed to be the world's oldest continually operating airfield?
Answer: College Park Airport

Question: In what year was the College Park Airport established?
Answer: 1909

Question: Who established the College Park Airport?
Answer: Wilbur Wright

Question: How many passengers does the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serve each year?
Answer: 35,000,000

Question: In what year did Rome Ciampino Airport open?
Answer: 1916

Question: Following the war, why did some military airfields add civil facilities?
Answer: for handling passenger traffic

Question: Which airport near Paris was one of the first to add civil facilities for handling passenger traffic?
Answer: Le Bourget Airport

Question: What was the first airport to operate scheduled international commercial services?
Answer: Hounslow Heath Aerodrome

Question: When did the Hounslow Heath Aerodrome begin to operate scheduled international commercial services?
Answer: August 1919

Question: What did airports use to permit night flying as well as landing heavier aircraft?
Answer: a paved "apron"

Question: When was the first lighting used on an airport?
Answer: latter part of the 1920s

Question: When did approach lighting come into use?
Answer: 1930s

Question: When was the slope-line approach system introduced?
Answer: 1940s

Question: What indicated the proper direction and angle of descent?
Answer: approach lighting

Question: What consisted of two rows of lights that formed a funnel, indicating an aircraft's position on the glidescope?
Answer: slope-line approach system

Question: Why did airport construction boom during the 1960s?
Answer: increase in jet aircraft traffic

Question: How far were runways extended out?
Answer: 9,800 ft

Question: What was constructed out of reinforced concrete?
Answer: The fields

Question: When were jet bridge systems introduced to modern airport terminals?
Answer: early 1960s

Question: ATC responsibilities are usually divided into how many main areas?
Answer: two

Question: What is responsible for directing all ground traffic in designated areas?
Answer: Ground Control

Question: Who instructs vehicles on which taxiways to use?
Answer: Ground Control

Question: When a plane is ready to take off, who takes over the direction of a plane?
Answer: Tower Control

Question: When is control turned back over to ground control?
Answer: After a plane has landed

Question: Who controls aircraft on the runway?
Answer: Tower Control

Question: Tower controllers use what to locate an aircraft's position in three-dimensional space?
Answer: radar

Question: Who controls aircraft in the controlled airspace immediately surrounding the airport?
Answer: Tower Control

Question: Why should aircraft that is only passing through an airspace contact Tower Control?
Answer: in order to be sure that they remain clear of other traffic

Question: What is a traffic pattern often called outside of the U.S.?
Answer: traffic pattern

Question: What assures smooth traffic flow between departing and arriving aircraft?
Answer: traffic pattern

Question: Due to this, the overall traffic planning tend to assure landing queues are avoided.
Answer: so-called SLOT-times

Question: Traffic patterns are usually flown at what altitude above ground level?
Answer: 800 or 1,000 ft

Question: Are standard traffic patterns right-handed or left-handed?
Answer: left-handed

Question: What does AGL stand for?
Answer: above ground level

Question: What is one of the main reasons pilots sit on the left side of the airplane?
Answer: Standard traffic patterns are left-handed

Question: At an extremely large airport, what is in place but not usually used?
Answer: a circuit

Question: What is the frequency called that is used by departing aircraft for the purpose of requesting approach clearance?
Answer: Clearance Delivery

Question: Which aircraft request approach clearance while they are still hours away from the airport?
Answer: commercial with long routes

Question: What helps pilots fly the approach for landing?
Answer: visual approach slope indicator

Question: What does VASI stand for?
Answer: visual approach slope indicator

Question: What does VOR stand for?
Answer: VHF omnidirectional range

Question: What helps pilots find the direction to the airport?
Answer: VHF omnidirectional range

Question: What instruments do pilots use to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground?
Answer: instrument landing system

Question: On runways, what indicate the beginning of the runway for landing?
Answer: green lights

Question: On runways, what indicate the end of the runway?
Answer: red lights

Question: What indicates the edge of a runway?
Answer: white lights

Question: What may low-traffic airports use to save electricity and staffing costs?
Answer: pilot controlled lighting

Question: What does ALS stand for?
Answer: approach lighting system

Question: What includes debris and nesting birds?
Answer: Hazards to aircraft

Question: In adverse weather conditions, what can be used to improve traction on the landing strip?
Answer: ice and snow clearing equipment