Airline crew rostering is the assignment problem of crew members to planned rotations/pairings for certain month. Airline companies have the monthly task of constructing personalized monthly schedules (roster) for crew members. This problem became more complex and difficult while the aspirations/criterias to assess the quality of roster grew and the constraints increased excessively. This paper...

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the entire business world. The airline industry in particular has fostered a dependency on technology for their operational and strategic management. Airlines were early adopters of ICTs and have a long history of technological innovation, in comparison to many other travel and tourism businesses. This paper discusses comprehensi...

Revenue management has been successfully implemented in the airline industry since the deregulation in 1978. There have been very few comprehensive, rigorous studies of its practices and impact, however. In this paper we examine how revenue management practices affect airline performances such as loadfactor and revenue, and how revenue management practices are implemented in different market st...

This paper provides a better understanding of the impact of e-quality on customer satisfaction which leads to the retention of loyal customers to airline e-ticketing websites. In this paper website quality is divided into three levels including: “website performance”, “website information” and “website online service”. Three sets of E-SERVQUAL criteria are chosen following a review of prior air...

Do firms have adequate incentives to invest in anti-terrorism mechanisms? This paper develops a framework for addressing this issue when the security choices by one agent affect the risks faced by others. We utilize the airline security problem to illustrate how the incentive by one airline to invest in baggage checking is affected by the decisions made by others. Specifically if an airline bel...

While most research on hedging has focused on foreign currency exposures, analysis of jet fuel price exposure in the airline industry and the effects of both financial and operational hedging on this exposure provides valuable insights into risk management. Exposure and hedging in the airline industry is relatively straightforward compared to foreign exchange hedging by multinationals. We inves...

With the wide-spread adoption of information technology and the global diffusion of GIS, a large volume of digital spatial data continues to accumulate. In the field of domestic air travel, aggregate data at a fine geographic resolution have become available. For instance, ever since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, all large certified domestic air carriers conducting sche...

BACKGROUND The Germanwings Flight 9525 crash has brought the sensitive subject of airline pilot mental health to the forefront in aviation. Globally, 350 million people suffer from depression-a common mental disorder. This study provides further information on this important topic regarding mental health especially among female airline pilots. This is the first study to describe airline pilot m...

Airline operations are disrupted frequently. The most impor-tant factors are unstable weather conditions and unpredictable techni-cal aeronautics problems. In a disrupted situation, an airline operatorneeds to quickly adjust the timetable and the resource schedules sothe importance of re-assignment of facilities to flight is much moreclearer. In this study, we considered the...

Since the pioneering work of O’Kelly[5], designing an airline network has been an alluring topic in operations research studies, and seemingly hub location problems are main concerns in the literature, see [1] for recent survey. In this paper a different approach is taken to the design problem in an attempt to find a compact and efficient sub-network of the original airline network. In Fig. 1 J...