Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Instructor Plans:
Transportation Professions / Air Transportation / Logistics, grade: 1,0,
University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Wildau Institute of Technology),
course: Aviation Management 2012, language: English, abstract: Airports
all over the world are regional centers of growth. They provide access
to the worlds most important markets for the domestic economy. Airports
interlink economic regions and are the basis for international business
relations. Without any doubt, the Federal Republic of Germany has one of
the densest airport network in Europe. Especially in populous areas,
multiple international and regional airports are competing for potential
passengers. Against the background of converting traditional airfields
into multi-faceted facilities and shopping malls with runways, in the
last decade airports tout for more than only people willing to leave the
city by airplane. They are competing for prospective customers. As a
result of these tendencies, the European airline and airport market is
facing emerging competition. The question to be asked under this
continuous cost pressure is not whether to react or not on the
circumstances. Every single airport shall ask how to deal with that rat
race and what its competitive advantage is. The competition between the
recently renamed Dusseldorf Airport (DUS) and Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN)
is exemplary in this situation and is perfectly illustrating the new
competitive situation. Separated by only 50 kilometers air-line
distance, it can be assumed that both airports are in a race for
supremacy in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region since many years. The
key question to be answered in this context is: Do both airports really
compete and if, what are the business segments they are struggling for?
How can the airports react on present developments and might they even
benefit from a kind of cooperation? This paper is trying to give answers
on the questions mentioned ab
