Airport Council Structure Ignoring, for the sake of discussion, the probability of major changes in air transport owing to technological advances and ecological constraints, we next consider an airport. Obviously an airport involves flying, air -traffic control, fueling, procuring and storing fuel, and repairing and maintaining aircraft, as well as keeping track of and ordering new equipment. In addition, there is providing service on the planes, procuring and preparing food for flights, handling baggage, making seating assignments, providing ground transportation, caring for the premises, and serving food and providing magazines, candy, and gum at terminals. Other necessary tasks include scheduling work assignments, preparing timetables for flights, and assessing demand. Air -traffic controllers control traffic.
Baggage handlers handle baggage.
Food servers serve. Each job fosters different skills and imparts different rewards. At a large capitalist airport, a huge number of individuals have marginal assignments that diminish solidarity with most of their coworkers and provide threadbare income and little fulfillment. A smaller number of pilots, administrators, and managers do interesting work but feel ambivalent about having to adapt themselves in elitist ways owing to the power they necessarily exert over their less exalted airport coworkers. This doesn't mean they all fly, cook, traffic -control, and organize schedules.