The purpose of the National Airspace System Strategy Simulator is to provide the FAA with a decision support system to evaluate long-term infrastructure and regulatory strategies. The NAS strategy simulator consists of several modules representing the different entities within the NAS embedded in a system dynamics framework. The MIT Airline Scheduling Module is the module within the NAS Strateg...

In domains such as factory assembly, it is necessary to assemble many identical instances of a particular product. While modern planners can generate assembly plans for single instances of a complex product, generating plans to manufacture many instances of a product is beyond the capabilities of standard planners. We propose ACP, a system which, given a model of a single instance of a product,...

This paper focuses on the airline industry on the Web and develops a customer-oriented airline site evaluation framework (ASEF). ASEF is specificoriented towards the airline sites. It may be useful not only to users that purchase airline services via Internet but also to designers and developers of airline websites. It may be used as a guide in order to improve their services considering all qu...

This article investigates how perceived price, airline service quality, perceived value, passenger satisfaction and airline image determine passengers’ future behavioural intentions. To test the conceptual framework, structural equation modelling using a maximum likelihood estimator was applied to data collected from Australian international air passengers. It was found that there were signific...

With respect to the importance of commercial alliances in airline hypercompetitive environment, partner performance evaluation is a critical matter before making any decision about partnership. In this article, utilizing Fuzzy theory, a hybrid airline evaluation model is developed in a way that all airline performance strategic dimensions are considered, as well as, it can deal with qualitative...

Researchers are applying more holistic approaches to the feedback control of the air transportation system. Many of these approaches rely on economic feedback, including the cost of delays to the airlines. Establishing an accurate mechanism for estimating the cost of a delays for each portion of a flight (gate costs, taxiing in and out costs, and en-route costs) is useful for many aspects of mo...

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This paper explores the inherent delays of airline schedules resulting from limited buffer times and stochastic disruptions in airline operations. The reliability of airline schedules is discussed and a set of measuring indices is developed to evaluate schedule reliability. It is found that significant gaps exist between the real operating delays, the inherent delays (from simulation) and the z...

The crew cost constitutes 20% of the direct operating in airline operations after aircraft fuel cost. Effective scheduling can save tens millions dollars to airlines and result low-cost flight tickets for passengers improved quality life crew. pairing requires addressing union expectations, company rules, regulations countries' civil aviation authorities. In this study, bi-objective goal progra...