The application of inventory transshipment modeling to air cargo revenue management

Li Zou, Chunyan Yu and Martin Dresner

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2013, vol. 57, issue C, 27-44

Abstract: This paper applies an inventory transshipment modeling approach to investigate the air cargo revenue management problem for an airline operating in a two-segment network. Building upon an extension of the classic two-location inventory transshipment model, we develop a framework to optimize an airline’s cargo overbooking decisions in a two-segment network setting. We find consistent evidence indicating that network-based global optimization always leads to greater expected profits than does local (i.e., market by market) optimization. Further, the magnitude of profit improvement is found to be most significant when local shipments have a relatively higher freight yield compared to flow-through shipments. Finally, our results indicate that global optimization contributes to greater profit improvement as offloading penalty costs become higher.

Keywords: Global optimization; Air cargo; Revenue management; Overbooking; Inventory transshipment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2013.01.004

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