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Book Synopsis Airline Network Seat Inventory Control by : Elizabeth Louise Williamson
Download or read book Airline Network Seat Inventory Control written by Elizabeth Louise Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the airline industry, it is customary for carriers to offer a wide range of fares for any given seat in the same cabin on the same flight. In order to control the number of seats made available in each fare class, airlines practice what is called seat inventory control. Traditionally, airline seat inventory control has been the process of allocating seats among varies fare classes on a flight leg in order to maximize expected revenues. Reservations for travel on a flight leg are accepted based on the availability of a particular fare class on that flight leg. A passenger's ultimate destination, overall itinerary, or total revenue contribution to the airline is not taken into account. The typical route structure of a large airline, however, is built around a complex network of connecting flights. Maximizing revenues on individual flight legs is not the same as maximizing total network revenues. The objective of this dissertation is to address the seat inventory control problem at the network level, taking into account the interaction of flight legs and the flow of traffic across a network. Beginning with the traditional network formulation of the seat inventory control problem, practical approaches for actually controlling seat inventories at the origin-destination and fare class (ODF) level are first discussed. To avoid problems associated with forecasting ODF itinerary demand, network methods based on aggregated demand estimates are then presented. Taking the network seat inventory control problem one step closer to fit in with current reservations control capabilities, several leg-based heuristics are introduced. These heuristics take into account information about different ODF passenger demand and traffic flows while optimization and control of seat inventories remains at the flight leg level. In order to effectively measure the revenue potential of the different network seat inventory control methods introduced, an integrated optimization/booking process simulation was developed. Specific issues related to realistically modeling the booking process are discussed and the multi-period, computer-based, mathematical simulation described in detail. With the use of this integrated optimization/booking process simulation, the revenue impacts of the different network seat inventory control methodologies are then evaluated using real airline data for both a connecting hub network and multiple flight leg networks. Overall performance of each method is examined by comparing the revenue obtained with that of current leg-based control approaches and the maximum revenue potential given perfect information. The performance of the different methods evaluated varies with both the network and the actual demand patterns, however, significant revenue impacts over current seat inventory control approaches can be obtained. One approach which consistently performs well is a deterministic network approach in which ODF seat allocations are nested by shadow prices. Depending on the network structure, other leg-based OD control heuristics also perform well. The benefits of network seat inventory control are a function of the load factor across a network. Below an average load factor of about 85%, revenue impacts over effective leg-based control are non-existent. However, as the average load factor increases, revenue impacts on the order of 2-4% are obtainable.
Book Synopsis Comparison of Optimization Techniques for Origin-destination Seat Inventory Control by : Elizabeth L. Williamson
Download or read book Comparison of Optimization Techniques for Origin-destination Seat Inventory Control written by Elizabeth L. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airlines have recently realized the importance of an effective seat inventory control system on revenues and profits. Yet, at the same time, there is a lack of practical optimization models for determining the number of seats to allocate to each origin-destination and fare class itinerary in an airline's network. In this thesis, several different mathematical models and optimization techniques for origin-destination seat inventory control are evaluated and compared. Each technique is applied to a small network with assumed demand levels and fares for each O-D/fare class combination. The techniques are then compared with respect to the differences in seat allocations and booking limits, fare class nesting order and total potential system revenue. The "optimal" seat allocation solution is found by the probabilistic linear programming technique, but actual use of such a method is impractical due to the size of its formulation and its distinct inventory solution, which is not compatible with the nested reservations systems of most major airlines today. The technique that seems to have the most potential as an efficient origin-destination seat inventory control method is a network based deterministic linear programming technique, with seat allocations nested according to shadow prices.
Book Synopsis Integrated Pricing and Seat Allocation for Airline Network Revenue Management by : Baskar Mohan
Download or read book Integrated Pricing and Seat Allocation for Airline Network Revenue Management written by Baskar Mohan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The airline industry is facing unprecedented challenges in generating sufficient revenues to stay in business. Airlines must capture the greatest revenue yield from every flight by leaving no seats unsold and not over filling the cabin with discount fares. To succeed in doing the above airlines must be able to accurately forecast each of their market segments, manage product andprice availability to maximize revenue and react quickly to competitive changes in the market place. Thus seat inventory control and ticket pricing form the two major tools of revenue management. The focus of this paper is to consolidate the ideas of seats inventory control and pricing in order to maximize the revenues generated by an airline network. A continuous time yield management model for a network with multiple legs, multiple fare classes and dynamic price changes for all fare classes is considered.
Book Synopsis Air Travel Demand and Airline Seat Inventory Management by : Peter P. Belobaba
Download or read book Air Travel Demand and Airline Seat Inventory Management written by Peter P. Belobaba and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many airlines practice differential pricing of fare products that share a common inventory of available seats on an aircraft. Seat inventory management is the process of limiting the number of seats made available to each fare class. The objective of both strategies is to maximize the total revenues generated by the mix of fare products sold for a flight. This dissertation first examines the evolution of airline marketing and seat inventory management practices. A demand segmentation model is developed to help explain current airline fare structures. A conceptual model of the consumer choice process for air travel is then presented, and extended to describe the airline reservations process and the probabilistic elements that can affect seat inventory control. A survey of current airline practice in this area revealed that seat inventory control is an ad-hoc process which depends heavily on human judgement. Past work on quantitative approaches has focused on large-scale optimization models that solve simple representations of the problem. A primary objective of this research was the development of a quantitative approach based on the practical constraints faced by airlines. The Expected Marginal Seat Revenue (EMSR) model developed in this thesis is a decision framework for maximizing flight leg revenues which can be applied to multiple nested fare class inventories. It is applied to a dynamic process of booking limit revision for future flight departures, and overbooking factors as well as fare class upgrade probabilities are incorporated. Examples of EMSR model results are presented, and a critical analysis of the demand assumptions and sensitivity of the model is performed. The EMSR model was implemented as part of an automated seat inventory control system at Western Airlines and tested on a sample of actual flights. Compared to flights managed by existing manual methods, flights for which fare class booking limits were set and revised automatically on the basis of the EMSR decision model carried more passengers at a lower yield, and generated higher total revenues.
Book Synopsis Network Value Concept in Airline Revenue Management by : Stephane J-C Bratu
Download or read book Network Value Concept in Airline Revenue Management written by Stephane J-C Bratu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A connecting passenger occupies a seat on each of the flight leg of his itinerary. Moreover, for a given fare class, the fare of a connecting passenger is lower than the sum of the fares of the local passengers on the traversed legs. If the demand is high, giving availability to a connecting passenger may displace local passengers and the airline would lose revenue. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate methods that airlines can use to better estimate the network revenue value of connecting passengers for the purpose of determining seat availability. In this thesis we analyze and compare two different ways of estimating the network revenue value of the connecting passengers. The first approach consists of estimating the displacement cost of the connecting passenger on all the traversed legs by the shadow prices associated with the capacity constraints of a network linear program (LP). The second one is a prorated fare convergence technique developed in this thesis. The fares of the connecting passengers are prorated on each of the traversed legs using an estimation of the expected marginal revenue of the last seat on the legs. The existence and uniqueness of the limit for each prorated fare sequence are also proven. We have compared the performance of different seat inventory control models that incorporate these two network revenue estimation techniques. The optimization/booking simulation uses demand forecasts from an airline's Yield Management historical database. The seat inventory control methods that use the network revenue value concepts perform up to 1.50% better than the existing fare class control approach at a high demand scenario (82% average load factor). Moreover, the prorated fare convergence technique performs better than the LP shadow price displacement cost approach especially if the demand is controlled by a bid price mechanism. Indeed, for a high demand scenario and a relatively high number of reoptimizations along the booking process, the prorated fare convergence method performs 0.12% better than the shadow price approach for a bid price control mechanism. Finally, the revenue difference between the two methods is both significant and robust with respect to demand variations.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Programming for Network Revenue Management Revisited by : Sanne De Boer
Download or read book Mathematical Programming for Network Revenue Management Revisited written by Sanne De Boer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical programming models for airline seat inventory control provide booking limits and bid-prices for all itineraries and fare classes. E.L. Williamson [Airline network seat inventory control: methodologies and revenue impacts, Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1992] finds that simple deterministic approximation methods based on average demand often outperform more advanced probabilistic heuristics. We argue that this phenomenon is due to a booking process that includes nesting of the fare classes, which is ignored in the modeling phase. The differences in the performance between these approximations are studied using a stochastic programming model that includes the deterministic model as a special case. Our study carefully examines the trade-off between computation time and the aggregation level of demand uncertainty with examples of a multi-leg flight and a single-hub network.
Book Synopsis Airline Seat Inventory Control for Two-leg Flights by : Emile Elias Hanna
Download or read book Airline Seat Inventory Control for Two-leg Flights written by Emile Elias Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Airline O-D Control Using Network Displacement Concepts by : Yuanyuan Julie Wei
Download or read book Airline O-D Control Using Network Displacement Concepts written by Yuanyuan Julie Wei and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the airline industry, it is customary for carriers to offer a wide range of fares for any given seat in the same cabin on the same flight. In order to maximize the total network revenue, the airline practices so-called seat inventory control methods. In this thesis, we first examine several seat inventory control methods which are employed or are being developed by some airlines. Then, based on these methods, we propose three new models to control the seats: the Network Non-greedy Heuristic Bid Price model, the Leg Based Probability Non-greedy Bid Price Model, and the Convergence Model. These models are created in order to find a better way to evaluate the connecting fares, taking into consideration their displacement impacts. An integrated optimization / booking simulation tool is employed in this research to compare the new models with the other methods in terms of network performance under the same demand circumstances. Generally, all the three new models improve network performance. The revenue results obtained from the simulation show that using network displacement concepts can provide us with an average of 0.5% revenue gain over the methods that do not explicitly include the displacement impacts at a load factor of 93%. The simulation results also show that under the same demand circumstance and seat control strategies, using a better way to evaluate the displacement impacts can provide 0.05% revenue improvement.
Book Synopsis Airline Operations and Scheduling by : Massoud Bazargan
Download or read book Airline Operations and Scheduling written by Massoud Bazargan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations research techniques are extremely important tools for planning airline operations. However, much of the technical literature on airline optimization models is highly specialized and accessible only to a limited audience. Allied to this there is a concern among the operations research community that the materials offered in OR courses at MBA or senior undergraduate business level are too abstract, outdated, and at times irrelevant to today's fast and dynamic airline industry. This book demystifies the operations and scheduling environment, presenting simplified and easy-to-understand models, applied to straightforward and practical examples. After introducing the key issues confronting operations and scheduling within airlines, Airline Operations and Scheduling goes on to provide an objective review of the various optimization models adopted in practice. Each model provides airlines with efficient solutions to a range of scenarios, and is accompanied by case studies similar to those experienced by commercial airlines. Using unique source material and combining interviews with alumni working at operations and scheduling departments of various airlines, this solution-orientated approach has been used on many courses with outstanding feedback. As well as having been comprehensively updated, this second edition of Airline Operations and Scheduling adds new chapters on fuel management systems, baggage handling, aircraft maintenance planning and aircraft boarding strategies. The readership includes graduate and undergraduate business, management, transportation, and engineering students; airlines training and acquainting new recruits with operations planning and scheduling processes; general aviation, flight school, International Air Transport Association (IATA), and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) training course instructors; executive jet, chartered flight, air-cargo and package delivery companies, and airline consultants.
Book Synopsis Airline Seat Inventory Control by : Hong Lim Kwek
Download or read book Airline Seat Inventory Control written by Hong Lim Kwek and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Note on Belobaba's "Application of a Probabilistic Model to Airline Seat Inventory Control" by : Lawrence William Robinson
Download or read book A Note on Belobaba's "Application of a Probabilistic Model to Airline Seat Inventory Control" written by Lawrence William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dynamic Two-leg Airline Seat Inventory Control with Overbooking, Cancellations, and No-shows by : Sharbel Jirjis El-Haber
Download or read book Dynamic Two-leg Airline Seat Inventory Control with Overbooking, Cancellations, and No-shows written by Sharbel Jirjis El-Haber and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Airline Revenue Management by : Devi Yanti
Download or read book Airline Revenue Management written by Devi Yanti and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Global Airline Industry by : Peter Belobaba
Download or read book The Global Airline Industry written by Peter Belobaba and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling textbook, provides an overview of recent global airline industry evolution and future challenges Examines the perspectives of the many stakeholders in the global airline industry, including airlines, airports, air traffic services, governments, labor unions, in addition to passengers Describes how these different players have contributed to the evolution of competition in the global airline industry, and the implications for its future evolution Includes many facets of the airline industry not covered elsewhere in any single book, for example, safety and security, labor relations and environmental impacts of aviation Highlights recent developments such as changing airline business models, growth of emerging airlines, plans for modernizing air traffic management, and opportunities offered by new information technologies for ticket distribution Provides detailed data on airline performance and economics updated through 2013
Book Synopsis Operations Research in the Airline Industry by : Gang Yu
Download or read book Operations Research in the Airline Industry written by Gang Yu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 260 2 Crew Legalities and Crew Pairing Repair 264 3 Model and Mathematical Formulation 266 4 Solution Methodology 271 5 Computational Experiences 277 6 Conclusion 285 REFERENCES 286 10 THE USE OF OPTIMIZATION TO PERFORM AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT Kenneth Lindsay, E. Andrew Boyd, George Booth, and Charles Harvey 287 1 Introduction 288 2 The Traffic Flow Management (TFM) Problem 289 3 Recent TFM Optimization Models 292 4 The Time Assignment Model (TAM) 302 5 Summary and Conclusions 307 REFERENCES 309 11 THE PROCESSES OF AIRLINE SYSTEM OPERATIONS CONTROL Seth C. Grandeau, Michael D. Clarke, and Dennis F.X. Mathaisel 312 1 Introduction 313 2 The Four Phases of Airline Schedule Development 315 The Airline Operations Control Center (OCC) 3 320 4 Analysis of Operational Problems 331 5 Areas For Improvement 352 6 Case Study: PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines 357 REFERENCES 368 12 THE COMPLEX CONFIGURATION MODEL Bruce W. Patty and Jim Diamond 370 1 Introduction 370 Problem Description 2 371 Problem Formulation 3 375 4 Model Implementation 379 ix Contents 383 5 Summary REFERENCES 383 13 INTEGRATED AIRLINE SCHEDULE PLANNING Cynthia Barnhart, Fang Lu, and Rajesh Shenoi 384 1 Introduction 385 2 Fleet Assignment and Crew Pairing Problems: Existing M- els and Algorithms 388 3 An Integrated Approximate Fleet Assignment and Crew Pa- ing Model 393 4 An Advanced Integrated Solution Approach 395 5 Case Study 396 6 Conclusions and Future Research Directions 399 REFERENCES 401 14 AIRLINE SCHEDULE PERTURBATION PROBLEM: LANDING AND TAKEOFF WITH
Book Synopsis Traffic Control and Transport Planning: by : Dusan Teodorovic
Download or read book Traffic Control and Transport Planning: written by Dusan Teodorovic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When solving real-life engineering problems, linguistic information is often encountered that is frequently hard to quantify using "classical" mathematical techniques. This linguistic information represents subjective knowledge. Through the assumptions made by the analyst when forming the mathematical model, the linguistic information is often ignored. On the other hand, a wide range of traffic and transportation engineering parameters are characterized by uncertainty, subjectivity, imprecision, and ambiguity. Human operators, dispatchers, drivers, and passengers use this subjective knowledge or linguistic information on a daily basis when making decisions. Decisions about route choice, mode of transportation, most suitable departure time, or dispatching trucks are made by drivers, passengers, or dispatchers. In each case the decision maker is a human. The environment in which a human expert (human controller) makes decisions is most often complex, making it difficult to formulate a suitable mathematical model. Thus, the development of fuzzy logic systems seems justified in such situations. In certain situations we accept linguistic information much more easily than numerical information. In the same vein, we are perfectly capable of accepting approximate numerical values and making decisions based on them. In a great number of cases we use approximate numerical values exclusively. It should be emphasized that the subjective estimates of different traffic parameters differs from dispatcher to dispatcher, driver to driver, and passenger to passenger.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Dynamic Capacity Management on Airline Seat Inventory Control by : Sanne De Boer
Download or read book The Impact of Dynamic Capacity Management on Airline Seat Inventory Control written by Sanne De Boer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic capacity management is the reassignment of aircraft to a flight schedule in response to the realisation of demand. Through better matching of the supply and demand for seats, airlines are able to carry more passengers, and the revenue management policy should be adjusted accordingly. This paper proposes a derivative (EMSRd) of the widely used EMSRb booking limit calculation method, which takes into account the effect of possible future capacity changes. The EMSRd approach only depends on the fleet assignment problem through the probability distribution of the aircraft type that operates each flight, and can be solved efficiently once these have been estimated. Numerical experiments show potential revenue improvements of over 1 per cent.
