Structural changes in the aviation sector have accelerated customer acceptance of the Internet as a suitable medium for booking airline travel. This research explores the preferences of airline travelers for various content attributes on airline websites. The study was conducted by surveying 903 respondents from Australia and New Zealand using an online questionnaire. The results indicate that ...

Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) is a challenging operations research problem whose importance keeps escalating with the unabated growth of the airline industry. In the presence of inclement weather, the problem becomes particularly serious and leads to huge monetary losses and delays1, Yet, despite massive efforts on the part of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airline compani...

The need to operate commercial airlines world wide for 24 hours each day inevitably leads to problems of aircrew management: to the stresses of flying an aircraft must be added those of unsocial and irregular hours, time zone (transmeridian), climatic and cultural changes, sleep disturbances, and alterations to circadian rhythms. Fatigue is the main danger, since a decline in performance is lik...

This paper is the second of two papers entitled “Airline Planning Benchmark Problems”, aimed at developing benchmark data that can be used to stimulate innovation in airline planning, in particular, in flight schedule design and fleet assignment. The former has, to date, been under-represented in the optimization literature, due in part to the difficulty of obtaining data that adequately reflec...

Understanding the characteristics of air-traffic delays and disruptions is critical for developing ways to mitigate their significant economic environmental impacts. Conventional delay-performance metrics reflect only magnitude incurred flight at airports; in this work, we show that it also important characterize spatial distribution across a network airports. We analyze graph-supported signals...

A large fraction of flight operations in the global commercial aviation system are conducted using a mixture of English and some other language(s). We examine the institutional factors that create this situation and the language practices adopted by non-native English speaking pilots to adapt within a complex ecology of constraints on language usage. We focus on an especially complex case, that...

The notion of co-locating alliance carriers to their designated terminals in airports has gained significant interest in recent years. While benefits on the part of airlines are made clear by existing literature on alliance-hubbing, the tangible benefits to airport operators are less clear due to a lack of studies in the literature. This paper considers existing cases of London Heathrow, Paris ...

Sleepiness and fatigue are important risk factors in the transport sector and bio-mathematical sleepiness, sleep and fatigue modeling is increasingly becoming a valuable tool for assessing safety of work schedules and rosters in Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS). The present study sought to validate the inner workings of one such model, Three Process Model (TPM), on aircrews and extend the...

Disruptions in airline operations can result in infeasibilities in aircraft and passenger schedules. Airlines typically recover aircraft schedules and disruptions in passenger itineraries sequentially. However, passengers are severely affected by disruptions and recovery decisions. In this paper, we present a mathematical formulation for the integrated aircraft and passenger recovery problem th...