Measures for Airlines to Reduce Airport Congestion Fees: Scheme Design and Performance Assessment

Table 7

Summarized comparison results of two methods.

	Schedule adjustment	Flight merging
		By B744	By A333	By B744&A333
Basic idea behind the method	“Peak shaving and valley filling” of a flight schedule	Reducing the total quantity of flights but without reducing total seat capacity by operating bigger aircraft
Scenario of the best practices	The flight schedule is an interweaving of peaks and valleys	The flight schedule is balanced and has some flight routes with high frequency
Performance of reducing total congestion fees	Fair	Very good	Good	Excellent
Performance of operational benefits	Good	Very good	Fair	Excellent
Performance of environmental benefits	Good	Very good	Fair	Excellent
Performance of reducing fees per adjusted flight	Excellent	Very good	Fair	Good