Gabriel Cedraz Diniz was selected as a recipient of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues administered by the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The award is being presented for the successful completion of a research paper on the recovery of the U.S. airline industry post COVID-19 pandemic.
This study will provide an in-depth and airport-specific assessment of how scheduled air service, passengers’ volumes, and airfares have changed for U.S. airports after its last major disruption, showing how air service today is different than in 2019 – disproportionately impacting smaller communities. Even though the data and analysis will be mainly related to COVID-19, the expectation is to generate insights which can be applied after other disruptive environments. In addition to the forementioned research paper, the project will create an online tool that airports can use to benchmark how their service levels have changed relative to peer airports and policy makers can use for data-based decisions.
Gabriel is very thankful for the opportunity and excited to develop a study that can be helpful to small communities, especially those that have been strongly impacted by the reduction of service post-pandemic. “I am delighted that Gabriel has been selected for this award. Having advised other students in this program in the past, I know that our students have benefited tremendously from the mentoring and feedback that the expert panel provides as the students engage on the research and prepare a paper.” stated Dr Laurie Garrow. Both are grateful to Cirium for providing access to Cirium DiioTM that will be used as the primary source of data for the study. (Click here for details).
The research paper will be considered for presentation at the TRB Annual Meeting in January 2026 and may be submitted for publication in a subsequent volume of the Transportation Research Record.
The Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation and administered by the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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