Pandemic SiM - Impact analysis and improvement potentials for pandemic airport security processes

Abstract

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic hit aviation and airports in multiples ways. As air transport is recovering cautiously from the severe losses due to travel restrictions this paper examines consequences of measures required to minimize contamination risks along travel processes at airports. In a simulation model we apply these measures in an exemplarily way focusing on the security check area of a medium sized European airport. The paper describes the modelling as well as results and findings of the simulation runs. It will show how capacity, waiting times and waiting space are affected, thus posing new challenges for airports due to increasing cost, and how further research could contribute to some relief in this regard.