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Based on nationwide aircraft performance and scheduling gathered from Variflight.com, the work evaluates how the identified factors, such as aircraft taxi-in and taxi-out time, airborne time, Origin–destination Pair Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (OD-Pair HHI), hub airport, and flight distance, coexisted in order to organize aviation scheduling more effectively and appropriately in the air transportation system. The result indicates that the variables of a hub airport, OD-Pair HHI and throughput have a more significant effect on SBT than the duration of each flight phase does (i.e., aircraft taxi-in and taxi-out time, airborne time, etc.). Fierce competition has prompted airlines to improve their on-time performance (OTP), instead of scheduling shorter block times. Moving forward, if the departure airport is a major one, the SBT will increase by 3.43 min, indicating that airport throughput is a primary determinant in adding or shortening SBT in China's aviation system.
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Chen, Y., Zhong, S. & Yan, Z. Examination on the setting of scheduled block time in China's aviation framework dependent on quantile regression model. Soft Comput 27, 3403–3410 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-06034-3
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