Step Function Intervention Analysis Model to Estimate Number of Aircraft Passengers in Minangkabau International Airport

Abstract

Pandemic of Covid-19 had a quite big impact in air transportation. Minangkabau International Airport (BIM) has also felt the impact of this pandemic, namely a drastic decrease in the number of airplane passengers or there was an intervention event.a stable of airplane passengers is needed to indicate a stable economy in the transportation sector. If there are no passengers or flight activity in an area, it means that there are no entry and exit of economic activities, industrial activities, tourism and trade which help economic development. For this reason, it is necessary to do forecasting so that the problems that arise as a result of the drastic decline can be resolved by making new policies. Forecasting was carried out in this study to obtain an intervention model that will be used for forecast the next 12 months and predict how long the effect of the intervention will last for avoid further losses due to the continued decline in the number of passengers. The intervention model is considered better for data that has intervention variable compared to SARIMA models. The results of forecasting showed that the SARIMA model (0,1,1)(1,1,1)¹² b = 0, s = 8, r = 1 is the best model that can be used for forecasting data containing interventions. This is evidenced by the small MAPE of 36.34% so that the model is feasible to use because the accuracy is quite high and close to the actual value.