Electric flight scheduling with battery-charging and battery-swapping opportunities

With the current advances in aircraft design and Lithium-Ion batteries, electric are expected to serve as a replacement for conventional, short-range aircraft. This paper addresses main operational challenges flights operated with aircraft: determining investment needs fleet of aircraft, logistics charging stations swap batteries required support these flights. A mixed-integer linear program two phases is proposed. In first phase, schedule flight battery recharge developed second optimal times determined, together an sizing number batteries. We illustrate our model from European airport designed based on characteristics narrow-body