Airport Capacity Benchmark Report 2001

CLT – Charlotte Douglas International AirportCurrent Operations- Optimum Rate• Visual approaches, visual separation – Optimum Rate of (80, 70-maximums) was reported by thefacility• Arrive Runways 18R/23, Depart Runways 18L/R• ASPM data is actual hourly traffic counts for the month of April 2000 for Visual Approach conditions.This data includes other runway configurations and off-peak periods.• Solid line represents the calculated airport capacity during a busy hour, and the tradeoff betweenarrivals and departure rates• The capacity model can only approximate the operations at CLT1101009080,60ASPM - Apr 2000 - Visual ApproachesCalculated VMC CapacityOptimum Rate (CLT)8070,70Arrivals per Hour70605040302010Each dot represents onehour of actual trafficduring April 200000 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110Departures per Hour