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Part II
GENERAL PLANNING ASPECTS (GEN)
GENERAL
1. Air navigation facilities, services and procedures
recommended for the EUR region should form an
integrated system, designated to meet the requirements of
international civil aviation operations and should meet the
requirements of all planned operations during the seven
years following a full review.
2. Planning should not necessarily be limited to this
period, especially with regard to facilities and services
which require large investments for which cost
effectiveness considerations are particularly important.
3. To ensure that the plan is kept current, each of the
major sub-systems composing the total air navigation
system should be reviewed at specified intervals so that a
whole review of the entire system will be completed within
a period of seven years.
Note.— A description of this concept is contained in the
Introduction to the EUR FASID.
4. To achieve the objective in 1, it is essential that all
planned operations be taken into account. These should
include domestic civil and military operations to the extent
that they influence international civil aviation.
5. Services to civil and military users should,
whenever possible, be provided by jointly operated
facilities in order to ensure not only an equitable sharing of
the available resources but also to keep down the cost of
operation of air navigation services for both parties.
SYSTEM CAPACITY
6. In order to maintain a reasonable balance between
the air traffic demand imposed on the air navigation system
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and its ability to satisfy this demand, the capacity of each of
its components should be assessed at appropriate intervals.
Note.— Paragraphs 3 to 11 and Attachment B to
Part V.III — ATFM of the EUR FASID refer.
7. Whenever necessary, the capacity of the system
should be adjusted, unless it is found that such adjustments
would result in costs which would be unacceptable when
compared with the overall benefits to be derived.
8. The airport capacity is one essential link in the
combined overall air navigation system. The overall system
is shown diagrammatically below:
Definitions
9. Airport capacity is the combined result of the
performance of one or more components of the three main
subsystems at an airport, which are:
— terminal capacity: the number of passengers per hour
which depends upon the movement rate through various
functions in the terminal, e.g. security, immigration,
customs, etc.
— apron capacity: the number of aircraft handled per hour
which depends upon the number of parking stands and
the capability of the ground handling agencies to service