Understanding spatial spillover effects of airports on economic development: New evidence from China’s hub airports

Intercontinental Fligths from European Airports: towards Hub Concentration or Not?

This paper empirically analyzes changes in the supply of non-stop intercontinental flights from European airports. We take advantage of OAG data for air services from a rich sample of European airports to intercontinental destinations in the period 20042008. Results of the empirical analysis indicate a tendency towards a more balanced distribution of intercontinental flights across European air...

Analysis and Modeling of Ground Operations at Hub Airports

Building simple and accurate models of hub airports can considerably help one understand airport dynamics, and may provide quantitative estimates of operational airport improvements. In this paper, three models are proposed to capture the dynamics of busy hub airport operations. Two simple queuing models are introduced to capture the taxi-out and taxi-in processes. An integer programming model ...

Airports and economic performance in China

Airports of the Future : The Development of

Major airports in the United States typically have been individual entities, developed locally as self-sufficient enterprises. Only rarely have airport managers run systems of significant airports. Moreover, airports normally offer a broad range of products to all qualified clients. This local, allpurpose mode of operation is quite unusual for a competitive business. It is also inefficient and ...

Arrival and Departure Scheduling at Hub Airports Considering Airlines Level

As the air traffic increases at a hub airport, some flights cannot land or depart at their preferred target time. This event happens because the airport runways become occupied to near their capacity. It results in extra costs for both passengers and airlines because of the loss of connecting flights or more waiting, more fuel consumption, rescheduling crew members, etc. Hence, devising an appr...