THE COMPETITIVENESS OF PRODUCTION INFRASTRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE GLOBAL COMPETITION

Abstract

Abstract. In the article the influence of production infrastructure of international airports on
the socium and economic development in the face of global competition is investigated. It was
found that the competitiveness of production infrastructure of international airports is a system
because its determinants are characterized by relationships between the elements that are formed
at different levels of aggregation of the economic system. The role of the airport infrastructure
in the shaping competitiveness of national economies and economic regions, directly airports
and airport services is investigated. In particular, the place of the quality of the airport infrastructure
in the system of countries competitiveness (in accordance with the methodology for constructing
the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum) is defined. It is
analyzed the methodological approaches to determining the competitiveness of production infrastructure
of the international airports, including by assessing the impact on the region’s economy,
in the context of the competitiveness of airports (by the method of M. Grancay), in the
context of the credit rating of airports based on a global scale of Moody’s, by measuring the level
of passenger service (the procedure ACI ASQ). Based on these studies the factors of competitiveness
of production infrastructure of international airports are identified.
Key words: international airport, production infrastructure, competitiveness, global competition.