The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on O-D flow and airport networks in the origin country and in Northeast Asia

On the ramifications of airspace bans in aero-political conflicts: Towards a country importance ranking

“…Janić (2021) clarifies the notions of robustness, vulnerability, and recoverability and applies them to the analysis of large-scale disruptions at airports, taking the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on London Heathrow as an example. Kuo et al (2022) reports on the changes in passenger flows during the COVID-19 pandemic in North-East Asia, the region with the longest pandemic impact on flight disruption, induced by the Chinese dynamic Low-COVID-cases policy and several uncontrolled waves in other Asian countries.…”

“…Complex network representations of the aviation system have widely analyzed the centrality of individual airports (or groups of airports) under random failure and intentional attack scenarios ( Cardillo et al, 2013 , Janić, 2015 , Wandelt et al, 2015 , Dunn and Wilkinson, 2016 , Voltes-Dorta et al, 2017 , Clark et al, 2018 , Sun et al, 2020 , Janić, 2021 , Siozos-Rousoulis et al, 2021 ). Finally, the recent developments around the COVID-19 pandemic have led to studies which analyze the resilience of the aviation system towards health/epidemiology-related disruptions ( Nikolaou and Dimitriou, 2020 , Zhou et al, 2021b , Bombelli, 2020 , Zhou et al, 2021a , Kuo et al, 2022 ). Overall, Jaffe (2016) can be considered the closest related work, concerning airspace closures and civil aviation, providing detailed historical assessments and explanations of earlier crises and how the fair usage of airspace is of outstanding importance to the well-functioning of the aviation system.…”

Airport Design Thinking: An Employee Perspective

“…Past pandemics, such as SARS in 2002 and H1N1in 2009, have caused severe airport disruption. Compared to previous pandemic outbreaks, however, COVID-19 has had a more devastating impact worldwide through travel restrictions, which affected the passenger volume, the number of flights, the airline flow patterns, and the airport network [7]. Therefore, Passengers demand better service quality from airport and airline staff and better technological facilities regarding safety and security during COVID-19 [8].…”