Malaysia airport runway maintenance performance

In recent years, civil aviation has experienced intense growth, regional or peripheral airports have been built or expanded to operate new routes. Airports are a part of the world transportation network. Huge investments are made annually for airport runway construction, maintenances, and rehabilitations. Therefore, the aim of this research is to study on Malaysia airport runway maintenance performance. To accomplish the aim of the research, the objectives of this research are to identify the surface failure for airport runway, to identify factor affecting performance of airport runway and, to identify standard maintenance performance criteria for airport runway. The data were collected from 66 respondents among the consultant and contractor that involved in construction and maintaining airport runway. From the data analysed, the respondents agreed that cracking is the often and most surface failure that occurs on runway compared to other surface failure and the load factor are the main factor that affecting the runway performance. The surface failure should be identified to provide better maintenance schedule for the runway. From the research, it shows that maintaining work for runway difficult to construct due to some reason.