Are the airlines being encouraged to spread out their peaked bank throughout the day?
Airline schedule decisions reflect the consideration of numerous factors, one of the more important being the general arrival and departure times preferred by travelers. Additionally, airline operating characteristics (including hubbing) and available aircraft fleet influence scheduling. While some airlines operate a generally sustained and even schedule throughout the course of the day, other airlines exhibit more pronounced arrival and departure peaks in activity corresponding to Denvers role as a hub in a larger route network. The Master Plan Study is a planning effort focused on projecting long range growth and defining the physical and operational improvements necessary to accommodate that growth. In that context, projections of future activity at DIA including airline scheduling of operations have not been arbitrarily constrained in the analyses. However, the projections of scheduled airline activity include increases in both the duration and magnitude of the projected activity p
