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5 Background "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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6 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging (Fitzgerald 2016)
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Introduction 7 • Airport size. It is customarily accepted that a change of aircraft equipment has different impacts at airports of different sizes.
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8 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging on the airport and aviation/airline industry since the Deregulation Act of 1978 and on the main factors and considerations that have resulted in the current market consolidation and upgauging trends. The project team used the Transportation Research Information Service, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Introduction 9 Figure 1. Map of survey respondents' locations (Source: https://www.mapcustomizer.com/)
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10 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging airport and represented a broad range of airline upgauging scenarios and operations planning practices: • Recent major upgauging and passenger growth: 1. Punta Gorda Airport, FL (non-hub)
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Introduction 11 • Comparison of airports' and airlines' perspectives on challenges related to the need for capacity increase (or decrease in the case of downgauging) • Relationship and communication between airport and airline partners, as well as with federal/state/local regulatory agencies and other airport stakeholders • Issues in facility planning, design, and construction, as well as best practices inferred from review and lessons learned • Impacts in terms of applicable regulation changes, evolving needs for staff and resources, and timeline and process for compliance with latest regulations and standards • Financial implications and available methods for risk assessment; development of flexible plans and preparation of capital programs; and available options for investment strategies, funding sources, and leasing structure The appendices contain additional documents and materials that were used as part of the study.
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