Roissy is in the process of achieving its ambition: becoming one of the three largest European Airports, and an unavoidable platform for world flight.
With a new high-density high-performance hub and 4 runways, the Airport can now compete directly with the other major airports at Heathrow and Frankfurt. The people and their occupations, that allow the airport to compete at this level are extremely vast, and varied…
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To achieve these aims, the airport needs a high level of skills, and security.
More and more aircraft are in circulation above and around the airport. The air traffic controllers have to follow and acquire special skills, and a new floor in the control tower is now dedicated to tracing the ground traffic. The more the traffic increases, and the higher is the risk of ground collisions, not only between aircraft, but also between the planes and the hundreds of other vehicles moving around the parkways and taxiways.
An airport is also a border. The police and customs check the identity and the origin of people as they arrive and depart. Their missions must adapt to the necessary fluidity of moving both passengers and freight. And new international standards will also oblige Roissy to use scanners to control the contents of all luggage travelling in the holds.
Aircraft maintenance is also part and parcel of the skills that a modern airport has to offer. Air France has a worldwide reputation for the security of its fleet. At the same time, dereglementation, cost-hunting, the increase in the number of planes in circulation, as well as aging fleets, all contribute to increasing the risk of mechanical incidents. Air France Industries are powering up their maintenance capacity at Roissy as more and more companies subcontract their maintenance here.
FedEx, the world’s largest commercial express freight operator, has chosen Roissy for its hub for Europe and Eastern countries. Thus Roissy takes on a predonderant place in the world of aviation freight.