Is Airport Capacity Dynamic ?

[Rex_Kramer]

Just wondering, does the capacity of airports (ie number of available slots) incease where airports open additional runways or is it fixed for the period of the game.

Eg does the slot capacity of FRA in AWS incease in 1984 when the new 18/36 runway opened ?

[alexgv1]

Runway building/extension is not modelled in the database, but the number of slots increases by a certain percentage each year.

[airplane_mech2]

Runway building/extension is not modelled in the database, but the number of slots increases by a certain percentage each year.

I think slots are driven mostly by available gates, not takeoff/landing capacity.  They can build a nice new runway, but if they haven't upgraded the number of gates, personally, I can't see how the number of slots would increase.

[Jps]

I think slots are driven mostly by available gates, not takeoff/landing capacity.  They can build a nice new runway, but if they haven't upgraded the number of gates, personally, I can't see how the number of slots would increase.

It's exactly the opposite.
No matter how many parking spaces the airport has, the runway is the limiting factor for operations. And this is modeled in AWS as well.
As far as I know, the number of slots is a fixed number from some year (2007 perhaps?) from which the actual number is a certain percent (<100% pre-2007, >100% 2007-) that gives the number of slots for given year.

[Sami]

Eg does the slot capacity of FRA in AWS incease in 1984 when the new 18/36 runway opened ?

Capacity is based on present data only.

I have a tool in the works (or have had for a long time) that would allow users to submit past data on runway extensions etc. so these could be modeled some day. But haven't finished that...

[Rex_Kramer]

Thanks Sami.

[RibeiroR]

It's exactly the opposite.
No matter how many parking spaces the airport has, the runway is the limiting factor for operations. And this is modeled in AWS as well.
As far as I know, the number of slots is a fixed number from some year (2007 perhaps?) from which the actual number is a certain percent (<100% pre-2007, >100% 2007-) that gives the number of slots for given year.

yes and no...
the runway is one of the factors, not the main, because there are airports with 2 long runways and can barely contain a B737.
whatever, the number of gates and size of parking is also an important factor.