6 th OCCAM Graduate Modelling Camp Efficient airline boarding strategies on the Airbus A 380

In this report we examine and find boarding strategies for a two-aisle model on the Airbus 380. Results for this type of airplanes are largely missing from the literature. A powerful MATLAB simulation tool was built in which many relevant parameters such as loading time, walking speed, etc. can be included as deterministic or random variables. We used this tool to test existing strategies for efficiency and robustness and to obtain insight into the effect of different variables on the total boarding time. Additionally we apply a Genetic Algorithm and obtain first results hinting that also existing boarding strategies can be further improved. Lastly we obtain combinatoric results for certain asymptotic regimes.