This work illustrates how to calculate accurate aircraft maintenance costs using Activity Based Costing (ABC). Comparing to traditional cost calculation, the proposed method is useful for aircrafts maintenance activity integrated to Airline Company and who wants to diversify its revenue by selling some available maintenance slots to third party clients for a competitive price. This paper takes ...

The More-Electric Aircraft (MEA) underlines the utilization of the electrical power to power the non-propulsive aircraft systems. Adopting the MEA achieves numerous advantages such as optimizing the aircraft performance and decreasing operating and maintenance costs. Moreover, the MEA reduces the emission of the air pollutant gases from the aircraft, which can contribute in solving the problem ...

As part of their planning process, airlines construct lines-of-flight (LOFs) − daily repeating sequences of flights, each of which will be flown by a single aircraft. In the week leading up to the actual day-ofoperations, these LOFs are then assigned to specific aircraft (tails), forming multi-day aircraft routings that in turn enable the scheduling of routine maintenance checks. Operational di...

The backbone of a safe and reliable air transportation system is the aircraft maintenance technician. These individuals work in a complex environment requiring above average teamwork skills as they coordinate, communicate and cooperate with other technicians and inspectors as well as with other departments within their organization. New technologies, such as multimedia computers, may be able to...

Research was conducted at a major airline to investigate factors related to situation awareness in aviation maintenance teams. Situation awareness has been found to be critical to performance and error prevention in many environments. Its role in the maintenance domain for the performance of both individuals and teams is discussed. Situation awareness requirements for aviation maintenance were ...

Motivated by a real application, we consider the following aircraft scheduling problem. At any time, the aircraft are at diierent locations or are serving a customer and new customer requests arrive, each consisting of a departure location, departure time and destination. Additionally, if a customer request consists of more than one trip, there may be an exclusive use of the aircraft between th...

The maintenance of military aircraft is complex and exhaustive, requiring an accurate training program. This process is not fault tolerant and requires certification renewal periodically. Furthermore, the process involves many professionals and resources, requiring phases of maintenance and verification of the tasks. Cooperation between professionals in the overall process is essential and requ...

Commercial aviation maintenance related incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Report System were investigated focusing on coordination problems. Among 1000 analyzed reports from a two-year period, 98 internal coordination issues within the maintenance team, and 24 external coordination issues between maintenance and other departments were discovered. Frequently established problematic inclu...