An airline maintenance manpower planning model with flexible strategies

Ta-Hui Yang, Shangyao Yan and Hsuan-Hung Chen

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2003, vol. 9, issue 4, 233-239

Abstract: An effective maintenance manpower supply plan not only reduces operating costs but ensures greater aviation safety and punctuality. A variety of flexible management strategies have been widely applied in other industries; however, little research has stressed flexible management strategies for airline crew scheduling problems. Here, we introduce a model that includes various flexible strategies so that an airline can effectively manage its maintenance manpower supply. The model is formulated as a mixed integer program that is solved using a commercial software package, CPLEX. In order to evaluate the model performance, we use the operating data from a leading Taiwan airline.

Keywords: Maintenance manpower supply; Crew scheduling; Flexible management strategy; Mixed integer program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6997(03)00013-9

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