Mathematical models in airline schedule planning: A survey

Ram Gopalan and Kalyan Talluri

Annals of Operations Research, 1998, vol. 76, issue 0, 155-185

Abstract: The schedule is an airline's primary product, having the most influence (along with price) on a passenger's choice of an airline. Once an airline decides (at least tentatively) on a schedule, a host of related problems have to be resolved before it can consider the schedule feasible, and can proceed to market the schedule. Among these problems are traffic forecasting and allocation that forecasts traffic on each flight leg for use in the fleet assignment model, fleet assignment that decides the fleet type of the aircraft flying the legs in the schedule, equipment swapping to change an assigned equipment type on a leg if and when necessary, through flight selection for determining which pairs of flights to market as one-stops (without any aircraft change), maintenance routing that develops aircraft rotations to provide adequate opportunities for overnight maintenance, and flight numbering to number flights as consistently as possible with a prior schedule. Considerable methodological and computational advances have been made in the recent past in developing models and solution methods for almost all of the problems mentioned above. In this paper we survey these various models and solution techniques. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Date: 1998
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