Abstract
The National Airspace System (NAS) in the United States (US) had an inventory of 5156 big jets at the end of December 2002, of which 4085 were narrow bodies, and 1071 can be classified as wide bodies. There were 1180 regional jets. In addition, there were 660 turboprops in the system at that time. Empirical research reveals that there is a critical link between the flow of scheduled passenger services and the choice of aircraft by the airlines in any O&D market pair. This relationship can be empirically retrieved without the detailed knowledge of airlines' behavior and used for analyzing the traffic patterns in the NAS. This is a natural segue from the econometric modeling of passenger demand [Bhadra (2003)]. Although the demand for scheduled passenger services provides important information, it cannot be directly used to generate demand for air transportation management (ATM) services. Hence, the empirical linkages between demand for scheduled air services and the demand for aircraft fleets by O&D pairs will have to be established. This paper is an attempt to establish this empirical linkage.
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