P by high labor costs, low profitability margins, airspace and airport congestion, high capital and operating costs, security and safety concerns, and complex and large-scale management and operations decisions, the airline industry has armed its planners with sophisticated optimization tools to improve decision making and increase airline profits. In this paper, we describe optimization approa...

COVID-19 claimed thousands of lives worldwide and put food systems, public health, the workplace in grave danger. Airline stock losses indicate industry-wide damage. We compared two large government-owned airlines to smaller for-profit over five years. A case study examined how online reviews have affected Chinese tourism. Investors hotel industry made during pandemic. This analyzed operational...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic global information network consisting of Internet-connected objects, such as RFIDs, sensors, and actuators, as well as other instruments and smart appliances that are becoming an integral component of the Internet. Over the last few years, we have seen a plethora of IoT solutions making their way into the industry marketplace. Context-aware communicatio...

The Internet of Things, as an emerging global Internet-based technical architecture, facilitates the exchange of goods and services in global supply chain networks. The phrase Internet of Things (IoT) heralds a vision of the future Internet where connecting physical things, from banknotes to bicycles, through a network will let them take an active part in the Internet, exchanging information ab...

BEA economist looks at sumers essentially separate tion strategies at an airline, the airline price strategies themselves through the ticket authors developed a simple the-The role of pricing strategies, choices that they make. This oretical model of second-degree which can have a profound im­ type of self selection is referred price discrimination and applied pact on companies' profitability, ...

Recent advances in radio, network, mobile, and cloud technologies have supported the development of the first generation Internet of Things (IoT) services and products. IoT promises to connect various physical and digital objects to the Internet and thus enable a plethora of new innovative applications that enhance society and quality of life [1–3]. IoT and ubiquitous computing [4] extend the c...

Professional airline pilots should be in far better health at all ages than the general population. Every six months, U.S. airline pilots must undergo a first-class flight physical examination, which is defined and required by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). To continue flying as pilots, they must pass the physical examination. Airline pilots reach age 60 (their mandatory-retire...

The performance metric used to evaluate on-time performance in the US airline industry is flight-based, measuring the number of flight legs with arrival delay of 15 minutes or more. We analyze airline passenger operations and schedule performance and conclude that this flight-based performance metric does not accurately reflect delays to passengers, primarily because it does not recognize the l...