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Structuring the Process of Airline Scheduling (1997)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Antes, Jürgen |
| Description | In: Operations Research Proceedings Constructing an airlines schedule is a complex task. Driving factors are economic and marketing considerations, safety regulations, and the availability of personnel, facilities and equipment. The overall schedule has to determine the plan of action for flight crews and planes as well as the timetable published for consumer needs. Different airlines subdivide the process of schedule construction into more manageable parts in different ways and organize them in different orders. In order to facilitate the comparison and the discussion of the different approaches we identify some basic building blocks commonly used along with their interdependencies. We show how different proposed strategies for schedule construction can be conceptualized using these building blocks. Several approaches will be outlined briefly. 1 Introduction Planning the activities necessary to run an airline is a complex task. The process of schedule planning is certainly the heart of it. Wells (1994), p. 254, gives a... |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1997-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Consumer Need Different Airline Schedule Construction Airline Schedule Different Way Marketing Consideration Schedule Planning Different Order Different Approach Manageable Part Complex Task Several Approach Safety Regulation Basic Building Block Airline Scheduling Flight Crew Building Block Overall Schedule |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
