Nowadays, in-flight comfort has become an essential characteristic to survive in domestic airline businesses. Air hostesses’ quality of service and response time to customer demand plays a vital role in enhancing quality of the flight experience and passenger satisfaction. However, additional requirements on air hostess expose them to fatigue which could eventually result in job dissatisfac...

Traditional methods model the billion-dollar airline crew scheduling problem as deterministic and do not explicitly include information on potential disruptions. Unfortunately, the effort used to optimize crew schedules and reduce crew costs is often wasted as flight schedules are often disrupted. Consequently, airlines spend a great deal of time and money optimizing crew schedules in the plann...

In airline schedule planning models, the demand and price information are usually taken as inputs to the model. Therefore schedule and capacity decisions are taken separately from pricing decisions. In this paper we present an integrated scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a single airline where these decisions are taken simultaneously. This integration enables to explicitly model supply...

We study an optimization problem of a regional airline company. The problem integrates three stages of the planning process that are typically solved in sequence: fleet assignment, aircraft routing and crew pairing. Aircraft maintenance is also taken into account. We present two mathematical formulations for the integrated problem. One formulation could be considered the natural model where bot...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been identified as one of the ten greatest contributory technologies of the 21 Century. This technology has found a rapidly growing market, and an increasing variety of enterprises are employing RFID to improve the efficiency of their operations and to gain competitive advantage. In the aviation industry, major airports/airlines have been looking for th...

This paper introduces an eecient adaptation of the branch-and-bound technique that solves real-world rostering problems for airline crews. The eeciency of the algorithm is based on the exploitation of rostering-speciic properties (e.g. variable selection, branching strategy and cutting-planes), an approach that shortens the solution process and outperforms standard techniques. Furthermore, we f...

The analysis of air-passengers’ choices of departure airport in multi-airport regions is a crucial component of transportation planning in many large metropolitan areas, and has been the topic of an increasing number of studies over recent years. In this paper, we advance the state of the art of modelling in this area of research by making use of a Cross-Nested Logit (CNL) structure that allows...

Airlines spend considerable time, effort and financial resources on planning. It is essential to create a competitive timetable and construct a fleet and a crew schedule that utilizes these resources to the maximum. Unfortunately, it is all too common that an airline is faced with the necessity of reconstructing their schedules due to some unforeseen event, e.g., an aircraft breakdown or a crew...

Aircraft fleet can have a major effect on the efficiency and smooth running of an airline. Constructing good quality schedules is vital for an airline to operate in an effective and efficient way in order to accomplish high levels of consumer satisfaction and to maximise profits. The robustness of an airline schedule is an indicative measure of how good the schedule is because a robust plan all...

This article presents a new fuzzy multiple criteria decision making model for the evaluation of airline competitiveness over a period. The evaluation problem is formulated as a fuzzy multiple criteria decision making problem and solved by our strength-weakness based approach. For finding out the strength and weakness of an airline over another airline, we present a preference function based on ...