Aircraft operational costs and turnaround efficiency at airports

Cheng-Lung Wu and Robert E Caves

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2000, vol. 6, issue 4, 201-208

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between flight schedule punctuality and aircraft turnaround efficiency at airports, in order to minimise system operational costs and meanwhile to maintain a required level of schedule punctuality. Investigations of aircraft operational costs, passenger delay costs and airline schedule time-opportunity costs are carried out in this paper. A mathematical model is applied to simulate aircraft turnaround operations by considering the stochastic effects of schedule punctuality as well as aircraft turnaround performance. Two numerical examples demonstrate the performance of the aircraft turnaround model. Results show the significance of a proper use of schedule buffer time in maintaining schedule punctuality performance.

Keywords: Aircraft turnaround operations; Schedule punctuality performance; Aircraft operational costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6997(00)00014-4

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