Europe's bottlenecks

This article looks at the possibility that by the year 2025 many European airports may be unable to handle all the demand for instrument flight operations. A recent study set out four growth scenarios, with the most rapid growth scenario assuming robust economies in Europe and doubling of demand to some busy city pairs, with a resulting demand of 3.7 million flights per year that could not be met. With the lowest projected demand, only 600,000 flights could not be accommodated. Although many airports are expected to adopt best practice for efficiency over the next twenty years, some are limited in expansion by environmental issues. Moving some operations to hours when an airport is operating below capacity could cut the percentage of unmet demand, and more use could be made of secondary airports. Larger aircraft and airports on new greenfield sites are expected.

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• Authors:
  • HUGHES, D
• Publication Date: 2005-1-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 49-51
• Serial:
  • Aviation Week & Space Technology
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0005-2175

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Demand; Economics; Forecasting; Highway capacity; Planning
• ITRD Terms: 1037: Airport; 645: Capacity (traffic network); 285: Demand (econ); 255: Economics; 132: Forecast; 143: Planning
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01012919
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 21 2005 3:10PM