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Hub airlines schedule banks of flights that create periodic demand peaks. During these peaks, arrival and departure rates approach or exceed airport capacity and queues develop. Under the current weight-based landing-fee structure, excessive delays result because airlines ignore the delays their operations impose on other airlines and their passengers. Congestion-based airport pricing would encourage airlines to use larger aircraft with lower service frequency and to shift their operations away from the peak, thereby reducing congestion. A model is presented of the adjustment of flight schedules and traffic flows in response to weight-based and congestion-based fee structures. With data from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the model is applied to calculate equilibrium congestion fees, schedule frequencies, traffic patterns, landing and takeoff costs, airport revenues, and resource savings from peak-load-congestion fees.

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Airlines; Airport capacity; Congestion pricing; Hub and spoke systems; Mathematical models; Peak periods; Queuing; Scheduling; Traffic delays; Traffic flow

Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport

Peak loads

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