Airport Managing Body

The Airport Managing Body is an entity, that can be private or public, which, under national laws, regulations, or contracts, depending on the case, deals with the management of the infrastructures of one or more airports and with the coordination and control of activities carried out there, also by third party operators. The figure and role of the Airport Managing Body has undergone substantial evolution over the years, increasingly being attributed a role that combines and integrates social responsibility and business, especially following the progressive abandonment of the static conception of the airport, in favor of a dynamic conception, as functionally connected to the performance of a public service. The possible forms of airport management can be grouped into two macro categories, that with public ownership and management, which, although increasingly less frequent, still exists in some States, and that with the more or less marked participation of private entities. The latter typology, a consequence of the emergence of the wider privatization phenomenon, is the one that has achieved the greatest success in recent decades.