Analysis of load capacity usage for aircrafts in regular airlines

Abstract

The rapid development of the air transport market in recent years, together with positive trends, brings also an amount of organizational problems related to, for example, strong congestion of airspace, lack of slots in large airports, etc. Such challenges point out the need to use every available kilo of aircraft load capacity. In such situation, an important component in the cargo transport gets to be the available load space of aircrafts, which operate on the regular airlines. In this article, the usage of such load space was analyzed. The research was done based on the data about baggage area filling of short- and medium-distance aircrafts, which operate from the selected Polish airport. This analysis shows the extent how aircrafts use their transport capacity. Also it specifies the possibilities to use these aerial vehicles in cargo transportations under the conditions of real payload depending on their types as well as under the conditions, which must be met by operating from the selected airport.