Even though some progress has been achieved, there is a critical need to improve civilian airport and military APOD capacity.

In order to continue effective management of the Air Point of Disembarkation/Embarkation (APOD) and airport, NATO has established a number of airport service contracts, which has allowed a reduction in military personnel at KAIA.

However, a comprehensive training plan still has to be developed to enable Afghan authorities to take over KAIA airfield operations and allow ISAF to scale down its responsibility to running the APOD section.