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Terminal?
In a dictionary, the term terminal usually
means or implies an end or ending.
Terminal?
If we talk about airspace,
the term terminal or terminal airspace
represent the area that is defined from the
surface up to a certain height (ex:20000ft) with
certain horizontal radius (ex:50 miles).
Terminal Airspace is controlled by approach
control.
Terminal?
If we talk about the airport terminal,
Although aircraft itineraries begin and end at an
airports terminal area, the itineraries of
passengers and baggage do not.
It is vital important to understand that the airport
terminal is not an end point, but an area of
transfer along the way.
In Chinese, Airport Terminal or Terminal is
called
Off-airport terminals
the airside-landside concept formed the basis for a series of
experimental concepts known as off-airport terminals.
With the notion that certain passenger processes, such as
ticketing and baggage check-in, and certainly automobile
parking, did not need to be within any proximity of aircraft,
such processes weren't necessarily required to be performed
on airport property.
As a result, facilities located miles away from the airport
itself were introduced whereby passengers could park their
personal vehicles, check themselves and their baggage in for
their flights, and then take a shuttle bus to the airport.
With the use of these off-airport terminals, passengers would
avoid the often significantly more crowded passenger processing
facilities at the main terminal.
Nose-in parking
Angled nose-in parking
Angled nose-out parking
Parallel parking
Remote parking
Ticketing
Traditional ticket counters are facilities staffed by air carrier personnel.
As with gates, ticket counters may be configured for exclusive use or
common use.
Exclusive-use ticket counters are typically configured with
information systems, computers, and other equipment specific to one
air carrier.
Common-use ticket counters are typically configured for use by
multiple air carriers.
the introduction of automated kiosks by many air carriers, located
near traditional ticket counters, perform many of the essential services
of the traditional ticket counter, at least for those passengers traveling
on electronic tickets.
The traditional processing that occurs at an airline ticket counter
includes the purchasing of airline tickets for trips, the assignment of
seats, the issuance of boarding passes, and initial baggage handling.
Security screening
Nowaday, ticketing facilities began performing first phases of
security screening by directing all checked-in baggage to
explosive detection screening stations. In addition, experimental
TSA policies at some airports, which require all passengers to be
in possession of a boarding pass prior to entering the passenger
security screening processing area have put new burdens on
ticketing areas.
Although the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has
ultimate authority over the facilities and procedures that
comprise the security screening processes, airport managers and
planners should be keenly aware of the security screening
process, because the process has presented the most significant
impacts on airport terminal planning and operations in recent
years.
At-gate processing
The remaining processing to be performed on a
passenger prior to boarding an aircraft typically
occurs at the gate area.
Each air carrier has its own method of boarding
passengers onto aircraft. Some air carriers board in
order of fare class, first class first, coach class next.
Others board passengers in order by the row number
of their assigned aircraft seats (rear to front). Yet
others board simply on a first-come, first-served basis.
At times, gate processing has also incorporated
security screening policies.
Baggage handling
Baggage handling services include a number of activities involving the
collection, sorting, and distribution of baggage. An efficient flow of
baggage through the terminal is an important element in the passenger
handling system.
Departing passengers normally check their baggage at one of a number of
sites including curbside check-in and at the ticket counter in the terminal
building. The bags are then sent to a central sorting area, where they are
sorted according to flights and sent to the appropriate gate to be loaded
aboard the departing aircraft.
Arriving baggage is unloaded from the aircraft and sent to the central
sorting area. Sorted bags are sent to a transferring flight, to the baggage
claim areas, or to storage for later pickup.
Sorting baggage, moving it to and from the apron, and aircraft loading
and unloading are time-critical and labor-intensive operations.
Computerized baggage-sorting equipment, capable of distributing
bags with machine-readable tags, has been installed at some airports.