Optimization Model Integrated Flight Schedule and Maintenance Plans

Abstract

Airline companies have to control their operating costs by managing their aircraft effectively. Analytical techniques have been used to solve such complex problems related to airline operations planning which often be classified into four types: “fleet assignment problems, “crew scheduling, “maintenance scheduling, and “revenue management. Due to the complexity of the combined optimization problem, most of the studies only address one of them to formulate the optimization models which have less effective to the real world problems. In this paper, we considered flight frequency, fleet assignment and maintenance simultaneously; an integrated planning model has been build and solved to get the maximum profit. The model is validated using the real data from an airline company and the results show it’s effective.