Optimizing the prices for airline flight passes

An agent for optimizing airline ticket purchasing

Buying airline tickets is an ubiquitous task in which it is difficult for humans to minimize cost due to insufficient information. Even with historical data available for inspection (a recent addition to some travel reservation websites), it is difficult to assess how purchase timing translates into changes in expected cost. To address this problem, we introduce an agent which is able to optimi...

Case report: stroke following an airline flight.

The Effect of Air Traffic Delays on Airline Prices

A legislative change in takeoff and landing restrictions at LaGuardia Airport provides an opportunity to study the effect of an exogenous shock to product quality on prices in the airline industry. I test how the price response varies with the degree of competition in the market. I find that prices fall by $1.42 on average for each additional minute of flight delay, and that the price response ...

Optimization of Codeshare Flight Selection for an Airline Company

Codesharing is a widespread practice that allows an airline to put one of its flight numbers on a flight operated by a partner airline and consider it in its own network. Even though it has been repeatedly demonstrated that this type of partnership can generate important additional revenue, it is increasingly complex for an airline to choose which flights to codeshare with which partners. We pr...

Climb Trajectory Prediction Enhancement Using Airline Flight-planning Information

Software decision support tools that assist controllers with the management of air traffic are dependent upon the ability to accurately predict future aircraft positions. Trajectory predictions in en route airspace rely upon the availability of aircraft state, aircraft performance, pilot intent, and atmospheric data. The use of real-time airline information for improving ground-based trajectory...