 Is increasing aircraft size common practice of airlines at congested airports?Peter Berster, Marc Gelhausen and Dieter Wilken Journal of Air Transport Management, 2015, vol. 46, issue C, 40-48 Abstract: If the overall demand for air transport grows, but additional airport capacity is not available at congested airports, we could assume that airlines will offer flights with more seats in order to cope with the demand. An analysis of frequency and average seat capacity developments at congested, and not yet congested airports, has shown that the hypothesis of bigger aircraft being used in congested situations is valid in most instances, although not at all airports. The objective of this paper is to report on an analysis of the development of average seat capacity at congested airports, in contrast to the situation at not yet congested airports, and to find out the reasons for airlines increasing the number of seats at congested airports, by means of a statistical model using variables including the degree of airport congestion and average flight distance. Keywords: Airport capacity; Airport utilisation; Airport congestion; Average seat capacity; Causal factors of average seat capacity development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:46:y:2015:i:c:p:40-48 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2015.03.012 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Air Transport Management is currently edited by Anne Graham More articles in Journal of Air Transport Management from Elsevier |
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