Airline Schedule Planning: Optimization Approaches

Authors

  • Zachary Cesaretti
  • Reiko Tominaga
  • Samantha Zimmerman
  • Mathew Reyers

Abstract

This paper discusses the scheduling of Air Canada’s planes across a network of cities. Where and when to fly planes are decisions faced by airlines worldwide. The two models used here were able to produce a daily schedule for seven Air Canada planes flying between seven cities, that optimizes pro1t levels. The obtained schedules are found to be very reasonable.

References

1. Financial Data

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2. History of Air Canada

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4. Cost of Flight Information

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5. Plane Speed

“Boeing.” http://www.boeing.com/commercial/787/. N.p., n.d. Web., 5 Apr.2015.

6. Cost of Jet Fuel

“Sub Navigation.” Http://www.iata.org/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/Pages/priceanalysis.aspx. N.p., n.d. Web., 2 Apr. 2015.

7. Distance of Arcs

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8. Open Solver

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Published

2016-08-02

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Analytics Now 2015 Edition

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