COVID-19 pandemic and air transportation: Summary of Recent Research, Policy Consideration and Future Research Directions

Sun, Xiaoqian; Wandelt, Sebastian; Zhang, Anming

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2022.100718

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Both quantitative and qualitative studies are conducted. More recently, Sun et al (2022) extend their previous study by adding nearly 200 papers from 2021 to 2022. Herein, the contributions are grouped into eight categories: airlines, airports, passengers, workforce, markets, contagion, sustainability, and economics.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 80%

Air transportation under COVID-19 pandemic restrictions: A wavelet analysis

Mutaşcu

Sokic²

2023

Transport Policy

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Air transportation under COVID-19 pandemic restrictions: A wavelet analysis

Mutaşcu

Sokic²

2023

Transport Policy

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“…Though flight volumes are still recovering from the demand drop caused by the COVID‐19 pandemic (Sun et al., 2022; Xue, Liu, et al., 2021), it is expected that flight volumes in the Asia Pacific in 2025 will account for 109% of the total in 2019 (IATA, 2023). Therefore, in this study, the historical flight data of 2019 were adopted as a reference to simulate the flight data of 2025.…”

Section: Data Simulation and Atm Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forward‐Looking Study of Solar Maximum Impact in 2025: Effects of Satellite Navigation Failure on Aviation Network Operation in the Greater Bay Area, China

Xue,

Yang,

Liu

et al. 2023

Space Weather

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Satellite navigation based on the Global Navigation Satellite System can provide aircraft with more precise guidance and increase flight efficiency. However, severe space weather events can cause satellite navigation failure due to the dramatic increase in total electron content and irregularities in the ionosphere. Consequently, ground navigation has to be used to replace satellite navigation, increasing aircraft separation standards and reducing airspace capacity. As a result, numerous flights may be delayed or even canceled, incurring significant financial losses. The occurrence peak of space weather events generally coincides with the 11‐year‐cycle solar maximum, and 2025 is expected to be the upcoming solar maximum. The Greater Bay Area (GBA), located in the equatorial ionization anomaly region of China, is particularly vulnerable to space weather impacts. To explore the effects of satellite navigation failure on flight operation, we conduct this looking‐forward study and propose solution methods from the standpoint of Air Traffic Management, by simulating satellite navigation failure scenarios. Based on the projected flight volume in 2025 related to the GBA airports, simulation results show that the economic costs can be tens of millions of Euros, which is dependent on the duration of satellite navigation failure and the time interval of ground navigation‐based landing. We believe that this study can be a benchmark for evaluating the potential economic effects of forthcoming space weather on flight operations.

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“…The interference of the health-related measures, flight bans, and changed passenger behavior are understood as drivers testing the resilience of the air transportation system. Given the extent of the impact COVID-19 had on the air transportation system, it is not possible to perform an exhaustive literature review here; the reader is referred to a recent survey ( Sun et al, 2022 ) for a full discussion on the subject instead. Here, we revisit studies which emphasize the heterogeneous spatial impact of the pandemic on the system’s performance.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This outstanding performance was only interrupted by a few short-term setbacks, including the attacks on 9/11, several financial crises, and smaller epidemic outbreaks ( George and Whatford, 2007 , Alexander, 2013 , Chi and Baek, 2013 ). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic early in the year 2020, aviation stakeholders have faced an unprecedented disruption of their business as usual, with passenger number reduced by 90%, aircraft being grounded, ghost flights, and highly volatile flight bans and entry rules; see Sun et al (2022) for a survey. Throughout the year 2021, large parts of the aviation system have started to recover, with load factors almost reaching pre-COVID-19 levels in various markets.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%