Airline Operations and Scheduling

by Massoud Bazargan

Overview

Aimed at graduate and undergraduate students in business, management, transportation and engineering, this text introduces the central issues of airline operations and schedules and reviews various optimization models in practice. Each model is accompanied by case studies. Bazargan (productions/operations management and research, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.) notes that the best use of the text is to group students into small teams and have them assume the role of operations managers to create their own airline, with all its attendant problems. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409486374
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Massoud Bazargan is Professor of Business at the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned his Ph.D. in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Bazargan is chairman of the Department of Management, Marketing and Operations. He teaches production operations management, operations research, simulation, and optimization. His research interests include safety, operations management, optimization, simulation and scheduling. Dr. Bazargan has been involved in consulting and research projects with the Federal Aviation Administration, The Link Foundation and aviation firms such as Lockheed Martin and AirTran Airlines. Among the journals Dr. Bazargan has published within several academic journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Air Transport Management and International Journal of Production Research.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	vii
	List of Tables	ix
	Preface	xii
1	Introduction	1
Part I	Planning Optimization
2	Network Flows and Integer Programming Models	7
3	Flight Scheduling	30
4	Fleet Assignment	40
5	Aircraft Routing	59
6	Crew Scheduling	81
7	Manpower Planning	100
Part II	Operations and Dispatch Optimization
8	Revenue Management	109
9	Gate Assignment	132
10	Airline Irregular Operations	140
Part III	Computation Complexity and Simulation Case Studies
11	Computational Complexity and Heuristics	159
12	Start-up Airline Case Study	163
13	Simulation Case 1	172
14	Simulation Case 2	187
	Appendix	201
	Index	203