Chapter 1: Introduction

Overview of Airports
Different measures are used in ranking airports in America, and generally across the world.
These include the level of activity, services offered and amount of investment made. More
specifically, airports are classified through national measures such as number of passengers
served (pax) and the number/level of operations undertaken. Other factors include administrative
and
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPAIS) classifies airports into four categories
namely; primary airports, commercial service airports, GA airports and, reliever airports.