Make Space!: Disruption Analysis of the A380 Operation in Mexico City Airport

Abstract

Recently, the super heavy aircraft A380 started operations between Mexico City and Paris, and it has been announced daily operations in March. In addition, Lufthansa and Emirates are also willing to use the A380 to operate from Frankfurt and Dubai to Mexico, respectively. However, in recent years, Mexico City International Airport has been reporting severe congestion problems and it is a concern whether these problems can be overcome with the current facilities and procedures together with the increasing aircraft demand. In this article, a capacity analysis of the operation performed in the airport is presented using information for a particular high-season day. A model-based approach which allows simulating the daily operation of the A380 is presented. This approach allows incorporating most of the restrictions besides the stochasticity inherent to the system.