Airports have economic, environmental, and social impacts on communities. Many of these impacts are influenced by airport management decisions. Airport sustainability may be thought of as having four primary areas: environmental, economic, operational, and social. The objective of this study is to understand better the adoption of social sustainability practices in small hub airport planning in the United States. The small hub airports in this study participated in the Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program for sustainability planning and have published their sustainability plans as either standalone sustainability management plans or integrated sustainable master plans. Plans from the six airports were gathered and examined as part of an exploratory case study analysis. The findings show that small hub airports do not use the same framework or select the same practices for social sustainability. Social sustainability practices for these six small hub airports focus on four stakeholder categories: passengers and travelers, employees, communities and local businesses, and concessionaires and tenants.

机场对社区产生了经济，环境和社会影响。其中许多影响受机场管理决策的影响。可以将机场的可持续发展视为四个主要领域：环境，经济，运营和社会。这项研究的目的是更好地了解美国小型枢纽机场规划中社会可持续性实践的采用。本研究中的小型枢纽机场参加了美国联邦航空管理局机场改进计划以进行可持续性规划，并已将其可持续性计划作为独立的可持续性管理计划或集成的可持续性总体计划发布。收集并审查了六个机场的计划，作为探索性案例研究分析的一部分。调查结果表明，小型枢纽机场没有使用相同的框架或选择相同的做法来实现社会可持续性。这六个小型枢纽机场的社会可持续发展实践着重于四个利益相关者类别：旅客和旅行者，员工，社区和当地企业以及特许经营者和租户。