Each airport in the United States is unique in its organizational and administrative structure. Airports are uniquely subject to rules, regulations, and policies applicable to the airport's operational characteristics, the ownership structure, and the laws of the local municipality, region, and state in which it's located. Conversely, each airport is subject to fundamental regulations mandated by the FAA, the TSA, and state Departments of Transportation, and functions under basic organizational structures that allow for the safe and efficient movement of aircraft, passengers, and cargo in and around the airport. The great challenge in airport management is to establish an ownership and organizational structure that meets the needs of each of the airport's constituents from direct users of the airport, to airport employees, to the local community.

Answer the following questions.

1. What communications tools are available to airports? How may these tools be most appropriately used?
2. Describe one advantage of airport authorities over municipally controlled airports.
3. How have airports used social media as part of their overall communications strategies? Give an example in regard to a recent airport event.
4. Will the privatization of airports in the UnitedStates of America benefit the economy and government? YES or No give reasons.