Aircraft Size and Type Impacts on Regional Air Transport Demand
- Carlos Higino Marques Junior
- Alessandro Vinícius Marques de Oliveira
ITA – Aeronautics Institute of Technology
- Evento
- XIV SITRAER – São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil, 26 a 28 de outubro de 2015
- Volume
- Anais do XIV Air Transportation Symposium (SITRAER) · ISSN 2448-1912
- Páginas
- 248–261
- Editora
- Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)
- Editores
- Carlos Müller
Abstract
Present paper decomposes ceteris paribus effect of aircraft size and type (turboprops/jets) in order to assess if and how they affect demand for regional air transport. Analyzing both engine technologies, it was expected to have jets enhancing demand more than turboprops but achieved results suggest the opposite. Since most of recent articles reports how airlines meet demand selecting the right aircraft and not how the aircraft size affects demand, one contribution from the present study is the analysis of aircraft size as an endogenous variable. It was perceived that flying small aircraft contributes more to demand than flying large aircraft.
Keywords: demand; aircraft; size; jet; turboprop; regional