Mr Karst Smit

BSc (Aviation Management)

Airport Planning

Background

Karst is a senior airport planner with international experience working for many different clients and airports, successfully delivering high quality solutions for complex projects.

In addition to leading reviews and studies in support of planning activities at various major international airports, Karst has spent time on secondment to Heathrow Airport Ltd and Abu Dhabi Airports Corporation, where he has gained a deep appreciation of the airport planning task.

Karst has been responsible for terminal design and capacity studies, airfield design, data analysis and modelling, height restriction assessments, market analysis and stakeholder engagement.

Skills include:

  • Airport master planning and optioneering
  • Functional planning
  • Data and flight schedule analysis
  • Market analysis and traffic forecasts
  • Airport modelling
  • Airport height restriction planning
  • Operational strategies
  • Capacity and demand assessments
  • Project management and business development
  • Stakeholder and client engagement

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Aviation Engineering - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
  • Air Transport Policy and Planning - University of Westminster
  • Aerodrome Reporting Officer - Australian Airports Association

Aviation Projects assisted Mackay Airport Pty Ltd to resolve several strategically significant matters and provide greater certainty about the protection of Mackay Airport's future ultimate capacity through the investigation, analysis and resolution of a number of complex inter-related airport protection problems.

 

Aviation Projects' responsiveness, expert knowledge, attention to detail, rigorous technical analysis and professional approach to its work contributed to the ability of North Queensland Airports, and in particular, Mackay Airport Pty Ltd, to achieve its strategic intent. As a result, Aviation Projects has become a trusted advisor to the NQA group of companies.

Kevin Brown, CEO, North Queensland Airports