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TABLE 2M
Air Taxi Operations Forecast
Mesquite Metro Airport
Year Charter Fractional Ownership
2-26
Total Air Taxi
Operations
2005* 84 141 225
FORECAST
Short Term 149 251 400
Intermediate Term 223 377 600
Long Term 559 941 1500
Source: AirportIQ database.
* Has been inflated by a factor of 1.5, to factor unrecorded operational data.
PEAKING
CHARACTERISTICS
Many airport facility needs are related
to the levels of activity during peak
periods (busy times). The periods used
in developing facility requirements for
this study are as follows:
1. Peak Month - The calendar
month when peak aircraft
operations occur.
2. Design Day - The average day
in the peak month. This indicator
is derived by dividing the peak
month operations by the number
of days in the month.
3. Busy Day - The busy day of a
typical week in the peak month.
4. Design Hour - The peak hour
within the design day.
The peak month is an absolute peak
within a given year. All other peak
periods will be exceeded at various
times during the year. However, they
do represent reasonable planning
standards that can be applied without
overbuilding or being too restrictive.
Without an airport traffic control tower,
operational information is not available
to directly determine peak operational
activity at the airport. Therefore, peak
period forecasts have been determined
according to trends experienced at
similar airports.
Typically, the peak month for activity at
general aviation airports approximates
10 to 15 percent of the airport’s annual
operations. For planning purposes, peak
month operations have been estimated
as 12 percent of annual operations at
Mesquite Metro Airport. The design
day operations were calculated by
dividing the peak month by 30.
The design day is primarily used in
airfield capacity calculations.
The busy day provides information for
use in determining aircraft parking
apron requirements. The busiest day of
each week accounts for approximately
20 percent of weekly operations. Thus
to determine the typical busy day, the
design day is multiplied by 1.4, which
represents 20 percent of the days in a
week (7 * 0.2). Design hour operations
were determined using an industry