Airline operations and scheduling

Title:

Personal Author:

Bazargan, Massoud

Publication Information:

Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate Publishing, 2004

ISBN:

9780754636168

Subject Term:

Airlines -- Management

Aeronautics, Commercial

Airlines -- Reservation systems

Operations research

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Aviation; This book is the result of developing an MBA course on Airline Planning and Operations at the College of Business at Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University. The course was initiated based on feedback received from alumni, mainly working at airlines, as well as students undertaking the author's operations research and operations management classes. The feedback indicated that a follow-up course to these courses specifically focused towards airline scheduling based on optimization methodologies would be very appealing to them, and the aviation audience. The idea of developing such a course was additionally encouraged by the College's airline industry advisers. The development of the course was long and time consuming. The reason was that due to its unique nature, there were limited suitable texts; and related materials are very technical, thus, beyond the scope of an MBA class. This course was developed and offered in Spring 2002. The students undertaking this course motivated the author to write a text focused at the materials in this course. This book attempts to achieve a number of goals as follows: Introduce the importance and complexity of planning and operations at th

Author Notes

Massoud Bazargan is Associate Professor, Production/Operations Management and Operations Research at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Manufacturing/Business Consultant.

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This book demystifies operations and scheduling within airlines, presenting easy-to-understand models, applied to practical examples. After introducing the key issues, it offers an objective review of the various optimization models adopted in practice. Each model provides solutions to a range of scenarios, with case studies similar to those experienced by commercial airlines. Using unique source material and interviews with alumni working at operations and scheduling departments of various airlines, this solution-orientated approach has been used on many courses with outstanding feedback. Excerpted from Airline Operations and Scheduling by Massoud Bazargan All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
1 Introduction	p. 1
Part I Planning Optimization
2 Network Flows and Integer Programming Models	p. 7
3 Flight Scheduling	p. 30
4 Fleet Assignment	p. 40
5 Aircraft Routing	p. 59
6 Crew Scheduling	p. 81
7 Manpower Planning	p. 100
Part II Operations and Dispatch Optimization
8 Revenue Management	p. 109
9 Gate Assignment	p. 132
10 Airline Irregular Operations	p. 140
Part III Computation Complexity and Simulation Case Studies
11 Computational Complexity and Heuristics	p. 159
12 Start-up Airline Case Study	p. 163
13 Simulation Case 1	p. 172
14 Simulation Case 2	p. 187
Appendix	p. 201
Index	p. 203

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