The airline industry has a long history of developing and applying optimization approaches to their myriad of scheduling problems, including designing flight schedules that maximize profitability while satisfying rules related to aircraft maintenance; generating cost-minimizing, feasible work schedules for pilots and flight attendants; and identifying implementable, lowcost changes to aircraft ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: FFR: Fatigue Failure Rate; FFPN: Fleet of N Fatigue-Prone aircraft; AL: Airline; AC: Aircraft; SL: Safe Life; FS: Fail Safe; DT: Damage Tolerance; MIMAR: Modeling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability; CDF: Cumulative Distribution Functions; RV: Random Variable; ML: Maximum Likelihood; MCh: Markov chain; CD: Crack Detection; FF: F...

Maintenance accounts for approximately 20% of the operational cost aircraft; a margin higher than associated with fuel, crew, navigation, and landing fees. A significant percentage maintenance is attributed to failures aircraft components systems. These are random provide database which can further be analyzed aid decision-making optimization. In this paper, stochastic mathematical models poten...