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... 80 There are many challenges associated with diverted flights. Some of these include uncertainties related to various future industry trends, the impact of small airports' staffing sizes, challenges with diversion planning and training, diversion costs, diversion coordination, and compounding issues associated with diverted flights.
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... Figure 10. Diversion flight trends 2011–2021 (Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2022)
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... 82 Managing a Flight Diversion with an Emergency Response at Small, Non-Hub, or General Aviation Airports to work together regularly to ensure that diverted flights are only routed to airports with the capacity and capability to manage them. In addition, the ramifications of the global pandemic and its associated workforce reduction combined with worldwide political uncertainties causing supply chain disruptions and steeply rising fuel costs have caused airlines to operate as efficiently as possible as they have minimal economical margins for error.
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... Diverted Flight Challenges 83   airport layout and may waste valuable time trying to figure out where to go and establish a staging location, for example. For the smaller airports that do create diversion-related plans, it can be a challenge to keep information current, particularly regarding things like contact information and maps.

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