Itinerary-Based Airline Fleet Assignment

Cynthia Barnhart (), Timothy S. Kniker () and Manoj Lohatepanont ()
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Cynthia Barnhart: Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Timothy S. Kniker: Analytics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Manoj Lohatepanont: American Airlines, Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport, Texas

Transportation Science, 2002, vol. 36, issue 2, 199-217

Abstract: We consider the airline fleet assignment problem involving the profit maximizing assignment of aircraft types to flight legs. Although several basic formulations have been proposed, important network considerations are insufficiently treated in these formulations and the resulting solutions are often suboptimal. We propose a new formulation and solution approach that captures network effects and generates superior solutions. We quantify the benefits of our proposed approach in a case study using data from a major United States airline.

Date: 2002
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