What is the airport for?

Airport, also known as airport, refers to the airport and its related buildings and facilities located on the route to ensure air transportation and professional flight operations, and is the base of air traffic network. The airport consists of three parts: flight area, passenger and cargo service area and maintenance area.

Among them, the flight area is the largest area of the airport, with facilities such as podium, runway, taxiway, apron and radio navigation system. The main task of the airport is to complete passenger and cargo transportation services, maintain and repair aircraft, ensure the normal transportation of passengers, goods and mail, and ensure the safe take-off and landing of aircraft.

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Airports come in different sizes. In addition to the runway, airports usually have towers, aprons, air passenger stations, maintenance workshops and other facilities, and provide airport control services, air traffic control and other services.

The airport as a whole includes the airport. In short, an airport can only be named if it has certain scale conditions. No matter how big or small it is, it can be called an airport as long as there are planes taking off and landing and supporting infrastructure. An airport can be called an airport to some extent. Of course, this level should catch up with the conditions of an airport, so some small airports and airports with small terminals cannot be called airports.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Airport (the whole civil aviation airport and related service facilities)