Arrival Flight Efficiency in Numbers: What New the Covid-19 Crisis is Bringing to the Picture?
2020 (English)In: SESAR Innovation Days 2020, SESAR Joint Undertaking , 2020Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Covid-19 pandemic affected aviation severely, resulting in unprecedented reduction of air traffic. While aviationis slowly re-gaining traffic volumes, we use the opportunity to study the arrival performance in the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) in non-congested scenarios. Applying flight efficiency and environmental performance indicators (PIs) to the historical data of arrivals to Stockholm Arlanda airport, we discover noticeable inefficiencies, despite significant reduction of traffic intensity. We analyse the impact of such factors as weather and traffic intensity on arrival efficiency in isolated scenarios when only one factor dominates. Our analysis uncovers that weather has a stronger influence than congestion on vertical efficiency, while congestion affects both, but mostly lateral efficiency.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SESAR Joint Undertaking , 2020.
Series
SESAR Innovation Days, ISSN 0770-1268
Keywords [en]
Vertical Flight Efficiency, Continuous Descent Operations, Fuel Consumption, Key Performance Indicators, Weather Impact on Flight Efficiency, Covid-19
National Category
Transport Systems and Logistics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173981Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85159692531OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-173981DiVA, id: diva2:1536740
Conference
SESAR Innovation Days 2020
2021-03-122021-03-122025-11-17