The sustainability of air transport is increasingly studied in relation to climate issues. The
objective of this paper is to provide the key elements for assessing whether a given …

Efficient airport operations depend on appropriate actions and reactions to current
constraints. Local weather events and their impact on airport performance may have network …

This paper describes the first-ever operational contrail avoidance trial in the real world,
which took place in the region of Maastricht Upper Area Control (including the northwest of …

Abstract Model-based estimates of aviation's climate impacts have found that contrails
contribute 36%–81% of aviation's instantaneous radiative forcing. These estimates depend …

Weather events have a significant impact on airport performance and cause delayed
operations if the airport capacity is constrained. We provide quantification of the individual …

Condensations trails (or contrails) that form behind aircraft have been of climatic interest for
many years; yet, their radiative forcing is still uncertain. A number of studies estimate the …

Today's air traffic operations follow the paradigm of 'flow follows structure', which already
limits the operational efficiency and punctuality of current air traffic movements. Therefore …

Reliable and predictable ground operations are essential for punctual air traffic movements.
Uncertainties in the airborne phase have significantly less impact on flight punctuality than …

High thin clouds are generated by airliners when hot exhaust gases and water vapor from
the jet engines mix with cold, humid air to form high thin clouds. These anthropogenic …

Contrail cirrus introduce a short-lived but significant climate forcing that could be mitigated
by small changes in aircraft cruising altitudes. This paper extends a recent study to evaluate …