This section allows you to test a change in the status of fuel sales at the airport, for Aviation Gas (AvGas) and Jet Fuel separately. The “Currently” field will populate with a “yes” or “no” based on whether the airport currently sells that type of fuel. The “New Scenario” field will default to the current status, but can be changed if you choose.

AvGas is assumed to be provided by self-service and Jet Fuel is assumed to be provided through full-service.

Aviation Gas

Because AvGas is assumed to be provided by self-service, the jobs associated with providing fuel service are not assumed to change with a change in the level of flight activity. If the airport currently sells AvGas, and you opt to continue assuming fuel sales, the Calculator will assume no change in the estimated economic impacts.

If the airport does not currently sell either type of fuel and you choose to run the scenario assuming AvGas fuel sales, economic impacts will be added based on the establishment of a new fuel sales operation. If the airport already sells Jet Fuel, the Calculator assumes that the full-service Jet Fuel staff are also handling the sales of AvGas. Therefore, changes in the status of AvGas fuel sales will not have an impact on jobs at the airport.

If the airport currently has AvGas but not Jet Fuel sales and you choose to remove those fuel sales from the scenario being tested, the Calculator will remove jobs and revenue assumed to be related to current fuel sales.

Jet Fuel

Because Jet Fuel sales are assumed to be full-service, the jobs associated with providing that service may increase in relation to operations. If the airport currently sells Jet Fuel and you opt to continue assuming fuel sales, an increase or reduction in fuel sales will be estimated based on a change in operations entered in the Changes in Flight Activity section for those flights that use Jet Fuel (corporate jet aircraft, commercial air taxis, and commercial air carriers).

If the airport does not currently sell fuel and you choose to run the scenario assuming fuel sales, the Calculator will assume new fuel sales based on both current operations and new operations.

If the airport currently has fuel sales and you choose to remove fuel sales from the scenario being tested, the Calculator will remove jobs and revenue it assumes to be related to current fuel sales based on current operations.

This section should be used for expected changes in operations. You are given the following categories:

1. General Itinerant Operations
   1. Personal Aircraft
   2. Business Flights (small aircraft)
   3. Corporate Flights (jet aircraft)
2. General Local Operations
   1. Personal Aircraft
   2. Business Flights (small aircraft)
   3. Corporate Flights (jet aircraft)
3. Commercial Air Taxi Operations (Charters)
   1. Assumed airplane seating capacity
   2. Assumed % of seats filled (load factor)
4. Commercial Air Carrier Operations (Scheduled)
   1. Assumed airplane seating capacity
   2. Assumed % of seats filled (load factor)

General Operations

Changes in General Itinerant Operations will result in estimated changes in visitor spending and Corporate Flights will impact assumptions for Jet Fuel sales (if the scenario assumes fuel sales, see above for further explanation).

Changes in General Local Operations will not assume any increase in jobs at the airport, except for the Corporate Flights section which will impact assumptions for Jet Fuel sales (if the scenario assumes fuel sales, see above for further explanation).

NOTE: If you expect that these activities will generate additional revenue for on-site, aviation-related businesses, such as sightseeing income, or cause a need for new jobs at an aviation-related business located on the airport, you will need to enter those jobs and revenue impacts on the Changes in Business Activity tab to capture the full impact.

Commercial Operations

Changes in Commercial Air Taxi or Commercial Air Carrier Operations require you to estimate the seating capacity of the new flights as well as the percent of seats occupied (load factor). The Calculator defaults to a load factor of 75%, which is an industry standard assumption for commercial air traffic, but this may be changed if you choose to better reflect the specific airport being analyzed. This percentage affects the number of passengers estimated on each added or subtracted flight, impacting the estimates of visitor spending and airline revenue.

Changes in these categories will estimate changes in Jet Fuel sales (if the scenario assumes fuel sales - see above for further explanation), changes in visitor spending, and changes in airline revenue.

Entering Negative Numbers

You may enter negative numbers to see the estimated economic consequences of removing existing flights. However, you may not remove more flights than are listed under the current data. In addition, is imperative that you reasonably estimate the airplane capacities and number of seats filled for commercial flights based on what is currently flying at the airport. Incorrect estimations can result in over- or under-estimating the impacts of removing those flights.

Aircraft Capacity by Airport Reference Code

The purpose of this document is to help users of the Aviation Economic Impact Online Calculator estimate the seating capacity of new airport operations. This document provides examples of airplane types and seating capacities for each Airport Reference Code (ARC), but does not comprehensively cover all possible aircraft types.

This table is for estimating purposes only and should never be used to determine if your airplane can land at a specific airport.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Find the ARC listed for the airport under the “Changes in Flight Activity” section of the calculator. This field will only be populated if you have selected an airport in the “Airport Name” field.
2. Find the airport’s ARC in the table below.
1. All aircraft listed below the airport’s ARC can take off and land at the airport, including aircraft in sets listed below your airport’s ARC.
2. All airplanes listed above the airport’s ARC are too large or too fast for the airport’s current runway(s). Only assume these seating capacities if the sample project you are analyzing would allow the airport to handle new types of aircraft.

EXAMPLE SEATING CAPACITIES BY AIRPORT REFERENCE CODE

ARC	Aircraft Make	Aircraft Model	Seating Capacity	Representative Plane
D-V
	Airbus	A330	293
	Boeing	747	420-496
	Boeing	777	368-440
C-IV, D-IV
	Airbus	A300	269
	Boeing	757	143-186
	Boeing	767	216-269
	McDonnel Douglas	MD11F	298
C-III, D-III
	Airbus	A318	117
	Airbus	A319	134
	Airbus	A320	132-164
	Airbus	A321	185
	Boeing	727	134
	Boeing	737	108-184
	McDonnel Douglas	MD-83	172
	McDonnel Douglas	MD-88	172
	McDonnel Douglas	MD-90	158
C-II, D-II
	Bombardier	CRJ-200	50
	Bombardier	CRJ-700	70
	Canadair	RJ 100/200	50
	Canadair	RJ 900	90
	Canadian Regional Jet	700	70
A-III, B-III
	De Havilland Canada	DHC-8	39-78
A-II, B-II
	Cessna	208 Caravan	9
	De Havilland Canada	DHC-3 Turbo Otter	9
	Embraer	E120	30
	Embraer	EMB-120	19
	King Air	200	9
	Pilatus	PC-12	9
B-I
	Piper	PA-31	10
A-I
	Cessna	207B	5
	Piper	PA-34	6

This section is for estimating changes in revenue and jobs at businesses located on airport property that are aviation-related. It is not designed to estimate the impact of jobs or revenue at businesses not located at the airport, such as in a neighboring city, or business that are located at the airport but do not use the airport for their business operations, such as a warehouse company that could be located in an off-site industrial park.

You are given the following business categories for which to enter estimated changes:

1. Aircraft and Aircraft Engine Manufacturing
2. Other Manufacturing/Fabrication
3. Warehousing and Storage
4. Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
5. Machinery/Equipment Repair and Maintenance
6. Scientific Research and Development
7. Sightseeing Transportation
8. Retail Businesses
9. Other Businesses and Support Services

For each of the business categories, you may enter an increase or reduction in jobs, wages, or sales, or any combination of the three. If you do not enter a number in one of the three fields, or if you enter a zero, the Calculator will estimate a value based on the information you did enter.

NOTE: The Calculator is designed to interpret an entry of zero as a lack of information, and will attempt to fill in that field based on relationships to other entered information. If the scenario you are analyzing includes a desired zero, enter a low, non-zero number instead, such as one. This will have minimal impact on the estimated economic impact and will keep the tool from trying to estimate the field itself.

If you are estimating impacts for more than one business in the same category, you must sum together the jobs, wages, and sales for those businesses.

If you enter jobs together with either wages or sales, the Calculator will show you the resulting wages per job or sales per job for your information as a check on the accuracy of your entry.

This section is for changes in cargo flights and cargo business activity. You must enter at least three pieces of information:

1. Estimated change in cargo operations;
2. Estimated percentage of operations that will use Jet Fuel; and
3. Estimated changes in cargo business sales, wages, OR jobs (or any combination of the three)

The change in operations and estimated percent using Jet Fuel will allow the Calculator to estimate a change in Jet Fuel sales from new or reduced flights (operations using AvGas do not affect the estimated jobs associated with selling AvGas since it is self-service). The change in sales, wages, or jobs will allow the Calculator to estimate impacts from the change in business activity. Like the section above, if you leave any of the sales, wages, or jobs fields blank, the Calculator will estimate them for you.

This section is for entering dollars that will be spent on one-time capital projects at the airport. You are given two categories of projects:

1. Infrastructure. Examples of infrastructure are new roads, paving of existing roads, pavement overlay, improvements or addition of utilities, etc.
2. New Buildings. Examples of new buildings are hangars, air traffic control towers, warehouses, or office complexes.

You are given four categories for types of funding:

1. Federal grants
2. State grants
3. Local funding
4. Other funding

From your estimated dollars, the Calculator will estimate the one-time impacts from the construction activity. Note that these impacts are different from all other fields on the Calculator in that these impacts are only assumed to occur during the period of construction, while all other impacts are assumed to continue indefinitely. These one-time impacts are summarized separately in the results section of the Calculator.

NOTE: If a capital project also has long-term business impacts, those impacts must be added separately in the above sections to fully capture all economic impacts.