在航空公司的經營成本中，燃油所佔有的比例正隨著油價上漲而節節上升，本研究之目的即在於分析飛行操作的改變對節省燃油所造成的成效。以某航空公司之真實飛行數據做為研究母體，針對桃園國際機場與澳門國際機場之來回航班進行分析，藉由所取得之原始資料轉換成分析軟體可辨識之工程資料檔後，佐以其他輔助程式進行油耗數據與飛行操作間的比對，進而找出妥善之飛航操作方式已達到節省燃油消耗的目的。
　　因應不同的外在環境與飛行條件，為了找出適當之節油操作方法，將飛行過程分成滑行、起飛、爬升、巡航、下降、進廠、落地減速與滑行至停機門等八個飛行階段，找出各飛行階段影響燃油消耗之因素並進行分類，計算各操作參數與燃油率之相關性分析，利用趨勢分析的方法求得油耗與操作之間的趨勢關係，以得到減少燃油消耗之操作模式。

This thesis analyzes the true flight data of medium range scheduled flights to research the fuel-saving flight operation procedures. The flight data analyzed are based on the Flight Operation Quality Assurance (FOQA) system of a domestic airline routed from Taoyuan international airport (RCTP) to Macau international airport (VMMC) with a total of 2416 flight database. The raw data from the FOQA system were converted into engineering format and analyzed by the MATLAB and EXCEL program.
Considering the differences of external environment, there were different ways of operation to reduce fuel consumption. In order to analyze these data precisely, each flight was staged into eight phases that included taxi out, takeoff, climbing, cruising, descending, approaching, landing, and taxi in. The highly correlated non-operational factors (weight and wind direction) were used to classify the database, and the trends of the fuel consumptions varying with the changes of the highly correlated operational factors were then used to identify the fuel-saving operation control ranges.

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