Robust Flight’ Scheduling in a Colombian Domestic Airline

Alejandro Cadavid Tobón, Pablo Andrés Maya Duque, Juan Guillermo Villegas

2015

Abstract

Air traffic has been grown rapidly, increasing the airlines’ competition, generating complex planning problems for airlines and major customers’ demands. Airlines’ profitability is highly influenced by its planners ability to face these challenges and build efficient schedules. In this paper, we developed a bi-objective optimization model for the timetabling problem of a Colombian domestic airline. Preliminary results show an increase of 12% respect to the current profitability of the airline.

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Cadavid Tobón A., Andrés Maya Duque P. and Guillermo Villegas J. (2015). Robust Flight’ Scheduling in a Colombian Domestic Airline . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-075-8, pages 156-161. DOI: 10.5220/0005220401560161


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@conference{icores15,
author={Alejandro Cadavid Tobón and Pablo Andrés Maya Duque and Juan Guillermo Villegas},
title={Robust Flight’ Scheduling in a Colombian Domestic Airline},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2015},
pages={156-161},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005220401560161},
isbn={978-989-758-075-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Robust Flight’ Scheduling in a Colombian Domestic Airline
SN - 978-989-758-075-8
AU - Cadavid Tobón A.
AU - Andrés Maya Duque P.
AU - Guillermo Villegas J.
PY - 2015
SP - 156
EP - 161
DO - 10.5220/0005220401560161