Recent research has delved into many aspects of aviation fuel consumption. In some ways the analogy with a personal automobile is apt: you fill up, and you drive until the tank is nearly empty, repeat. The difference for aviation is that the weight of the fuel itself significantly adds to the power needed to fly ("it takes fuel to fly fuel"). So, although the equations and ideas are well known, I would appreciate pointers to industry standard methods. Our goal is analytical shortcuts that would allow this idea to be built into a model of a major airlines network.
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We just published a related article.
Yongha Park and Morton E. O’Kelly
Fuel burn rates of commercial passenger aircraft: variations by seat configuration and stage distance
Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 41, December 2014, Pages 137–147
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.08.017
To be clear, this is not an effort to do a specific commercial project: we are interested in calibration for airlines in general. Comments and questions welcome!
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