The impact of COVID-19 on domestic U.S. air travel operations and commercial airport service

Hotle, Susan; Mumbower, Stacey

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2020.100277

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“…Closely related studies that have examined changes in airline product quality for passengers during the COVID-19 pandemic include Monmousseau et al, 2020 , Hotle and Mumbower, 2021 . Monmousseau, Marzuoli, Feron, and Delahaye (2020) investigate the impact of COVID-19 induced travel restrictions on passenger mood measured by tweets obtained from Twitter.…”

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“… Hotle and Mumbower (2021) examine the COVID-19 impacts on air travel operations and commercial airport service in the United States. Accounting for the financial support received by airports through the CARES Act, the results show asymmetric response in flight departures across airports.…”

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“…This relieves some stress on the air transportation (e.g., congestion) resulting in reduced flight delays. To the best of our knowledge, this study is among a very few to estimate the product quality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the airline industry ( Hotle and Mumbower, 2021 , Kim, 2021 , Monmousseau et al, 2020 ). Our results suggest that despite the economic fallout from the pandemic, a silver lining prevails—flights are departing and arriving closer to their scheduled time in greater numbers despite the COVID-19 shocks.…”

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The airline on-time performance impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Yimga¹

2021

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on flight delays in the U.S. airline industry. Using daily data on COVID-19 cases and flight on-time performance, and controlling for product, carrier and market characteristics, we find that increases in reported COVID-19 cases are associated with reductions in both departure and arrival delays. Specifically, a standard deviation increase in COVID-19 cases reduces arrival delay by 1 min 42 s and departure delay by 2 min, on average. Our results suggest that despite the economic fallout from the pandemic, a silver lining emerges—flights are departing and arriving with less delay amid the pandemic.

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The airline on-time performance impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Yimga¹

2021

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“…At the time of writing this paper, several studies are available on the impact of COVID-19 on the transportation sector, specifically the transmission of COVID-19 through transportation [24][25][26][27], virus transmission risks in travel modes [28,29], operation and maintenance of transportation systems [30,31], public transportation [32,33], the impacts of COVID-19 on travel demand [34][35][36], activity patterns [37][38][39][40][41], and mode choice behavior [42][43][44] during the lockdown and post-lockdown periods. The emerging literature in the field indicates that people's travel behavior has changed in response to the threats of COVID-19's spread and related guidelines and restrictions that are still active [38,39,41,42,45].…”

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Active Travel Mode Choice in Bangladesh: A Study from the Perspective of Sustainability and New Normal Situation

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused incredible impacts on people’s travel behavior. Recent studies suggest that while the demand for public transport has decreased due to passengers’ inability to maintain physical distance inside this mode, the demand for private automobile and active transport modes (walking and cycling) has increased during the pandemic. Policymakers should take this opportunity given by the pandemic and encourage people to use active transport more in the new normal situation to achieve sustainable transportation outcomes. This study explores the expected change in active transport mode usage in the new normal situation in Bangladesh based on the data from a questionnaire survey. The study finds that 56% and 45% of the respondents were expected to increase travel by walking and cycling, respectively, during the new normal situation. On the other hand, 19% of the respondents were expected to do the opposite. The study further identifies the factors influencing the expected change in travel by active transport modes during the new normal situation by developing multinomial logistic regression models. Finally, this study proposes policies to increase active transport use beyond the pandemic and ensure sustainable mobility for city dwellers and their well-being.

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“…Social, economic and environmental impacts: Due to flight suspensions, international and domestic flights fell to an all-time low around May 2020, with a subsequent recovery in domestic flights (Sun, Wandelt, & Zhang, 2021a). In the U.S.A., domestic air traffic fell by 71% in May 2020, in spite of government financial support under the CARES act (Hotle & Mumbower, 2021).…”

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COVID-19 passenger transport measures and their impacts

2021

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Governments all over the world have had to implement various policy measures in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, impacting many people's lives and livelihoods. Combinations of measures targeting the transportation sector and other aspects of social life have been implemented with varying degrees of success in different countries. This paper proposes a classification of COVID-19 measures aimed at passenger mobility. We distinguish the categories "avoidance of travel", "modal shift" and "improvement of quality". Per category, we distinguish different types of measures and effects (social, economic and environmental). Next, we review the literature on COVID-19 measures for passenger mobility, after which we discuss the policy relevance of our findings and propose a research agenda. We conclude that broad or integral assessments of measures on all socially relevant effects are rare. Also, few studies exist to determine the effects of individual measures and deal with combinations of measures instead. Studies on social or economic effects focus on partial direct effects (e.g. turnover of the transport sector, effect of mobility measures on commuter traffic) and do not elaborate on indirect effects (e.g. changes in household expenditure, stress levels). Finally, there is a greater focus in the literature on intermediary health indicators (e.g. travel behaviour) but less on the actual spread of COVID-19 or indeed on other indirect health effects of measures (e.g. due to air pollution, more exercise, etc).

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The impact of COVID-19 on domestic U.S. air travel operations and commercial airport service

Cited by 62 publications

References 16 publications

The airline on-time performance impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

The airline on-time performance impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Active Travel Mode Choice in Bangladesh: A Study from the Perspective of Sustainability and New Normal Situation

COVID-19 passenger transport measures and their impacts

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