In an airline company, one of the most important tasks is to control the operational plan, i.e., making sure that flights are executed according to the scheduled plan. When the normal functioning is affected by an unexpected event, disruption management appears in order to solve all possible issues. From aircraft to passenger, operation control centers have to effectively fix all the disrupted ...

Scope and Purpose|Airline crew scheduling is a very visible and economically signiicant problem. Because of its widespread use, economic signiicance, and diiculty of solution, the problem has attracted the attention of the operations research community for over twenty-ve years. The purpose of this paper was to develop a genetic algorithm for the airline crew scheduling problem, and to compare i...

Under deregulation, the competition for air general cargo business between all-cargo airlines and combination airlines is foreseeable. This paper proposes a model structure that analyzes the pricing and service strategies between two kinds of carriers within a competitive framework, and evaluates airline profits based on game theory and a microeconomic theory of airline behavior. The model is a...

P by high labor costs, low profitability margins, airspace and airport congestion, high capital and operating costs, security and safety concerns, and complex and large-scale management and operations decisions, the airline industry has armed its planners with sophisticated optimization tools to improve decision making and increase airline profits. In this paper, we describe optimization approa...

Most studies investigating passenger’s expectations of the airline transportation industry focuses on service quality and satisfaction relating to only the airline industry. This paper deals with an overview of travellers’ expectations of personal activities as part of their airline transportation experience. These aspects refer to expectations of South African and Malaysian travellers when at ...

The Airline Crew Assignment Problem (ACA) consists of assigning lines of work to a set of crew members such that a set of activities is partitioned and the costs for that assignment are minimized. Especially for European airline companies, complex constraints defining the feasibility of a line of work have to be respected. We developed two different algorithms to tackle the large scale optimiza...

Information, communication and transport networks have always been in a state of flux, while they also influence each other. Extensive research efforts have been made to investigate the dynamics in the structure and use of networks, e.g., by means of network geometries, small-world effects and scale-free phenomena. We will illustrate these new developments on the basis of airline network evolut...

This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in the effective price of fuel, which is the path by which emissions charges will alter airline choices....

Service quality provides an incentive for customers to come back make repeat demand. Studies have shown that Nigeria aviation industry has failed put into proper perspective the service specific dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, tangibility, assurance, and empathy in its delivery. The study therefore examined effect organisational contextual features on Airline companies Nigeria. Cross...

D choice models are appealing for airline revenue management (RM) because they offer a means to profitably exploit preferences for attributes such as time of day, routing, brand, and price. They are also good at modeling demand for unrestricted fare class structures, which are widespread throughout the industry. However, there is little empirical research on the practicality and effectiveness o...