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1 "Upgauging" is an industry technique enabling air carriers to increase capacity by adding seats to existing jets and replacing smaller planes with larger ones. While these practices are generally the result of airline network and system-wide strategies, their impacts are often experienced at the local level by the airport community.
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2 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging stakeholders: it is generally easy to identify and understand a posteriori what factors played a key role in the increase of traffic at an airport (or the loss of service) , but it is always a challenge to foresee the future and make accurate predictions that will be used as a basis for today's decisions.
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Summary 3 – Improvement of airside/apron infrastructure: � Successful case examples were identified in the study in which airport management had trained staff to be strongly familiar with technical details, such as aircraft characteristics and latest FAA standards. It helped these airports refine their needs assessment during phases of rapid growth and successfully reduce the overall program costs.
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4 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging – Finally, private partnerships were reported to be particularly interesting for cargo activities. Working closely with tenants to align their individual goals with the airport's goals as a whole was identified as a successful way to maintain a sustainable cargo activity.
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