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Examination on the setting of scheduled block time in China's aviation framework dependent on quantile regression model

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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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The authors are indebted to Variflight.com for providing the research data, and Professor Zhao Yifei from Civil Aviation University of China and the anonymous reviewers for their immensely valuable and constructive comments contributing to the improvement of this paper.

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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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