Crew Planning at Flying Tiger: A Successful Application of Integer Programming

Roy E. Marsten, Michael R. Muller and Christine L. Killion
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Roy E. Marsten: University of Arizona
Michael R. Muller: The Flying Tiger line, Los Angeles
Christine L. Killion: The Flying Tiger line, Los Angeles

Management Science, 1979, vol. 25, issue 12, 1175-1183

Abstract: This paper presents a successful application of integer programming to the scheduling of flight crews for a cargo airline. The crew planning process is discussed, the role of the set partitioning model is explained, and representative computational experience is reported. The success of this application is shown to rest upon improved problem conceptualization and decomposition rather than on any advances in solution techniques.

Keywords: crew scheduling; integer programming applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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