06.1 - Flight Dynamics and Control (Control & Modelling)
AIRSPACE CAPACITY IMPLICATIONS OF CONTRAIL-AWARE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION
A. Lemetti¹, T. Polishchuk¹, L. Smetanova¹; ¹LiU, Sweden
Persistent aircraft contrails can offset climate benefits of emission-optimized flights. While contrail-aware routing is widely studied, its feasibility is constrained by airspace capacity. This study adapts a maxflow/mincut-based sector capacity methodology to quantify flight-level-dependent capacity reductions caused by contrail avoidance, highlighting operational limits of rerouting strategies.
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0224