ABSTRACT
This chapter describes international airport terminals as terminals for aerial transportation. It explores central railway and central bus stations, followed by a wider elaboration on airport terminals notably international ones. Central train and bus stations are terminals for terrestrial mobility modes only, whereas airports serve mainly as flight terminals, but they are also complemented by terrestrial mobility media. Both railway stations and airports also normally include terminals for virtual personal mobility in form of Internet stands. Central railway stations are usually used by train passengers on a daily basis, or generally more frequently than airports are used by most of their passengers. The geography of airports, by the very nature of airports, cannot focus merely on airports, possibly ignoring the kind of 'nesting' and 'anchoring' of airports within the cities and countries which they serve. The physical terminal environment represents the fixed element of airport terrestrial and avionic mobilities, and their 'operations' implies their functionality.
