Increasing Collegiate Flight Training Fleet Utilization Through the Use of an Aircraft Assignment Algorithm

Increasing Collegiate Flight Training Fleet Utilization Through the Use of an Aircraft Assignment Algorithm

Models and Algorithms for an Integrated Fleet-Assignment, Aircraft-Routing and Crew-Pairing Problem

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...

An integrated fleet assignment and itinerary choice model for a new flexible aircraft

In this paper we present methodologies for improving the demand-responsiveness of air transportation systems. The main ingredients are the flexibility in transportation capacity provided by an innovative aircraft and an integrated model where supply-demand interactions are explicitly formulated. The integrated model benefits from the simultaneous schedule planning and revenue management decisio...

A neighborhood search algorithm for the combined through and fleet assignment model with time windows

The fleet assignment model (FAM) for an airline assigns fleet types to a set of flight legs that satisfies a variety of constraints and minimizes the cost of the assignment. The through assignment model matches inbound flight legs into a city with the outbound flight legs at the same city that are flown by the same plane types and creates through connections (that is, flight connections with on...

A Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search Algorithm for the Combined Through and Fleet Assignment Model

The fleet assignment model (FAM) for an airline assigns fleet types to the set of flight legs that satisfies a variety of constraints and minimizes the cost of the assignment. A through connection at a station is a connection between an arrival flight and a departure flight at the station, both of which have the same fleet type assigned to them that ensures that the same plane flies both legs. ...