Airline Schedule Planning: Optimization Approaches
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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.
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Financial Data
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History of Air Canada
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Cost of Flight Information
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Plane Speed
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Cost of Jet Fuel
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Distance of Arcs
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Open Solver
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