The cost of ight crews is the second largest operating cost of an airline. Minimizing it is a fundamental problem in airline planning and operations, and one which has leant itself to mathematical optimization. We discuss several recent advances in the methods used to solve these problems. After describing the general approach taken, we discuss a new method which can be used to obtain approxima...

2015 2 Acknowledgements I am grateful for the continuous support and guidance of my advisor, Jimmy Roberts. I would also like to thank Professors Michelle Connolly and Tracy Falba for their helpful feedback and revisions as my honors seminar instructors. Finally, I would like to acknowledge my classmates in my honors seminar for their valuable comments during class presentations. Abstract In an...

Deregulation, privatization and shifting demand patterns in the airline industry, combined with the emergence of low-cost airlines and rising fuel prices have increased the competitive pressure on legacy airlines. Since alliances do not deliver sufficient benefits to counterbalance these trends, many airlines have engaged in mergers to seek for additional cost and revenue synergies. An extent b...

number: 007-0058 Adaptive Critics for Airline Revenue Management Abhijit Gosavi Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University at Buffalo, SUNY 317 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 [email protected] POMS 18th Annual Conference Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. May 4 to May 7, 2007. Abstract We present an approximate dynamic programming (DP) technique, called adaptive critic, for solving an airli...

Before the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, there were few documented cases of symptomatic Ebola patients traveling by commercial airline, and no evidence of transmission to passengers or crew members during airline travel. In July 2014 two persons with confirmed Ebola virus infection who were infected early in the Nigeria outbreak traveled by commercial airline while symptomatic, involvi...

Capt. Herbert Schwarz AICC [email protected] Abstract Learning management systems provide an indispensable basis for the manifold training requirements of flight crew, ground staff, engineering and maintenance personnel mandatory to the airline industry. Screening and deployment of such a system is a complex endeavor which is discussed against the background of specific requirements of the airl...