Integrated Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: Polyhedral Analysis and Benders' Decomposition Approach

Airline Schedule Planning: Integrated Models and Algorithms for Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment

C a profitable schedule is of utmost importance to an airline because its profitability is critically influenced by its flight offerings. We focus our attention on the steps of the airline schedule planning process involving schedule design and fleet assignment. Airline schedule design involves determining when and where to offer flights such that profits are maximized, and fleet assignment inv...

Integrated Airline Operations: Schedule Design, Fleet Assignment, Aircraft Routing, and Crew Scheduling

Robust Airline Fleet Assignment: Imposing Station Purity Using Station Decomposition

Fleet assignment models are used by many airlines to assign aircraft to flights in a schedule to maximize profit [Abara 1986, Hane et al 1995]. A major airline reported that the use of the fleet assignment model increased annual profits by more than USD100 million [www.informs.org, 2002] a year over three years. The results of fleet assignment models affect subsequent planning, marketing and op...

Airline fleet assignment concepts, models, and algorithms

The fleet assignment problem (FAP) deals with assigning aircraft types, each having a different capacity, to the scheduled flights, based on equipment capabilities and availabilities, operational costs, and potential revenues. An airline s fleeting decision highly impacts its revenues, and thus, constitutes an essential component of its overall scheduling process. However, due to the large numb...

Solving the Integrated Schedule Generation and Fleet Assignment Problem: an ACO- Based Metaheuristic Approach