Structural changes in the aviation sector have accelerated customer acceptance of the Internet as a suitable medium for booking airline travel. This research explores the preferences of airline travelers for various content attributes on airline websites. The study was conducted by surveying 903 respondents from Australia and New Zealand using an online questionnaire. The results indicate that ...

Within the airline, any disturbance to normal operations has a dramatic impact, and usually imposes high additional costs. Because of irregular events during daily operations. When disruptions occur, flight schedules are affected due to the resulting infeasible flight schedule and improper assignments. Therefore, airlines need to recover disrupted schedule as soon as possible and minimize the e...

This paper is the second of two papers entitled “Airline Planning Benchmark Problems”, aimed at developing benchmark data that can be used to stimulate innovation in airline planning, in particular, in flight schedule design and fleet assignment. The former has, to date, been under-represented in the optimization literature, due in part to the difficulty of obtaining data that adequately reflec...

Companies across all sectors with increasingly smaller size rely on alliance relationships to bolster revenues during times of economic uncertainty. When forming alliances, large firms typically hire vendors such as investment banks to help identify potential alliance partners. However, small businesses with intention to build alliance find difficulties to search desired partners especially on ...

Orin S. Levine, Thomas Cherian, Rana Hajjeh, and Maria Deloria Knoll GAVI Alliance’s PneumoADIP, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Hib Initiative, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia; and Immunizations, Vaccines, and Biologics, World Health Organizatio...

Biotechnology industry is well-known as a knowledge intensive industry and required relatively large financial support. As the demanding nature from both finance and knowledge/technology resources, biotech companies tend to strategically collaborate with others for product development and marketing. Therefore, a growing need of strategic alliance was observed in biopharmaceutical industry of Ta...

In this paper, a stochastic programming approach is applied to the airline network revenue management problem. The airline network with the arc capacitated single hub location problem based on complete–star p-hub network is considered. We try to maximize the profit of the transportation company by choosing the best hub locations and network topology, applying revenue management techniques to al...

Purpose: The network strategies used by airline carriers have been a recurring subject in air transport research. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the different operational characteristics of the airline and its route network configuration. Design/methodology/approach: The two main airline carrier typologies Full-Service and Low-Cost carriers – are analysed using...

We proposed a new Small-World network (called n-Star network in which average path-length L becomes absolutely small) inspired by ants’ collective behavior. As one of the real-world applications using this network, it is shown that reorganization of the world airline network is possible in the next generation. In addition, it not only has the characteristic that is more immune from random failu...