Trabajo presentado en el 10th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (2013), celebrado en Chicago del 10 al 13 de junio de 2013.The upsetting consequences of weather conditions are well known to any person involved in air transportation. Still the quantification of how these disturbances affect delay propagation and the effectiveness of managers and pilots interventions to prevent possible large- scale system failures needs further attention. In this work, we employ an agent-based data-driven model developed using real flight performance registers for the entire US airport network and focus on the events occurring on October 27 2010 in the United States. A major storm complex that was later called the 2010 Superstorm took place that day. Our model correctly reproduces the evolution of the delay-spreading dynamics. By considering different intervention measures, we can even improve the model predictions getting closer to the real delay data. Our model can thus be of help to managers as a tool to assess different intervention measures in order to diminish the impact of disruptive conditions in the air transport system.PF receives support from the network Complex World within the WPE of SESAR (Eurocontrol and EU Commission). JJR acknowledges funding from the Ramón y Cajal program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO). Partial support from MINECO and FEDER was received through projects
MODASS (FIS2011-24785), FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) and INTENSE@COSYP (FIS2012-30634). Funding was also received from the EU Commission through projects EUNOIA FP7-DG.Connect-318367) and LASAGNE (FP7-ICT-318132).Peer reviewe
