Airport Capacity Planning lecture 1 week 1

Introduction
Forecasting is very important to expend your airport. To be able to do this, you’ll need to
know what happened in the past. For this you use Tower Log Data. This is data of arrivals
and departures of flights(traffic flows). You’ll also need a market analysis.
Passengers movements could be distinguished in:
- International, domestic and combined
- Transfer & transit
- Scheduled/ charter/ LCC
- By carrier/ alliance
Aircraft movements:
- Passenger
- Full freighter
- Military
- General aviation
There are four main methods used to forecast. These are: trend projection, market and
industry surveys, the Deplhi Technique(experts opinion) and econometric method(regression
analysis). In practise, multiple are used to show a thorough base of information. Odd
numbers will do very well, cause if one does show a different outcome, the other two can
show that they are similar and the odd one out is not correct.
The type of passenger(business, leisure) is one of the most important factors that specify an
airport’s demand.