The Airline industry faces various issues and difficulties related to its management, which have a peculiar and a complex solution. The objective of this paper is to introduce new and simplified methodologies for improving the airline sector by introducing cost efficient and relatively high payout services. In this paper, we have applied strategic sharing of modules in service family design usi...

The problem of adaptive stochastic airline seat inventory control lies at the heart of airline revenue management. This problem concerns the allocation of the finite seat inventory to the stochastic customer demand that occurs over time before the flight is scheduled to depart. The objective is to find the right combination of customers of various fare classes on the flight such that revenue is...

This paper attempts to relate certain areas of similarity between Space Shuttle operation and Airline operation. The design controlled factors affecting airline maintenance cost are discussed. The thesis is that the Space Shuttle designer should consider airline experience in areas affecting maintenance cost in order to design the most cost effective Space Shuttle System.

We present an algorithm for the crew pairing problem, an optimization problem that is part of the airline crew scheduling procedure. A pairing is a round trip starting and ending at the home base, which is susceptible to constraints that arise due to laws and regulations. The purpose of the crew pairing problem is to generate a set of pairings with minimal cost, covering all flight legs that th...

In this paper we present a genetic algorithm-based heuristic for solving the set partitioning problem. The set partitioning problem is an important combinatorial optimisation problem used by many airlines as a mathematical model for ight crew scheduling. We develop a steady-state genetic algorithm in conjunction with a specialised heuristic feasibility operator for solving the set partitioning ...

Optimization problems due to noisy data solved using stochastic programming or robust optimization approaches require the explicit characterization of an uncertainty set U that models the nature of the noise. Such approaches depend on the modeling of the uncertainty set and suffer from an erroneous estimation of the noise. In this paper, we introduce a framework that considers the uncertain dat...

In this paper, we deal with the crew assignment problem, which is a subproblem of the airline crew scheduling problem. The aim of the crew assignment problem is the optimal allocation of a given set of crew pairings to crew members, in a way that a set of constraints is satis ed. The optimality criterion we employ in this work requires the ight time fair distribution among all crew members. Thi...

Set covering problem is a classical problem in computer science and complexity theory. It has many applications, such as airline crew scheduling problem, facilities location problem, vehicle routing, assignment problem, etc. In this paper, three different techniques are applied to solve set covering problem. Firstly, a mathematical model of set covering problem is introduced and solved by using...

Airport demand management strategies have the potential to mitigate congestion and delays. However, the extent to which the delays can be reduced using such strategies is not clear. In this paper, we develop a bound on the minimum possible level of delays that can be achieved using these strategies. We solve the aggregated timetable development and fleet assignment problem to minimize the syste...