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The crew pairing problem (CPP) is generally modelled as a set partitioning problem where the flights have to be partitioned in pairings. A pairing is a sequence of flight legs separated by connection time and rest periods that starts and…
Airline Crew Pairing Optimization (CPO) aims at generating a set of legal flight sequences (crew pairings), to cover an airline's flight schedule, at minimum cost. It is usually performed using Column Generation (CG), a mathematical…
The crew rostering problem (CRP) for pilots is a complex crew scheduling task assigning pairings, or sequences of flights starting and ending at the same airport, to pilots to create a monthly schedule. In this paper, we propose an…
Crew Pairing Optimization (CPO) is critical for an airlines' business viability, given that the crew operating cost is second only to the fuel cost. CPO aims at generating a set of flight sequences (crew pairings) to cover all scheduled…
The team formation and routing problem is a challenging optimization problem with several real-world applications in fields such as airport, healthcare, and maintenance operations. To solve this problem, exact solution methods based on…
Crew pairing optimization (CPO) is critically important for any airline, since its crew operating costs are second-largest, next to the fuel-cost. CPO aims at generating a set of flight sequences (crew pairings) covering a flight-schedule,…
Crew Pairing Optimization aims at generating a set of flight sequences (crew pairings), covering all flights in an airline's flight schedule, at minimum cost, while satisfying several legality constraints. CPO is critically important for…
Predicting if passengers in a connecting flight will lose their connection is paramount for airline profitability. We present novel machine learning-based decision support models for the different stages of connection flight management,…
Machine learning has been used in all kinds of fields. In this article, we introduce how machine learning can be applied into time series problem. Especially, we use the airline ticket prediction problem as our specific problem. Airline…
In this work we compare the performance of several machine learning algorithms applied to the problem of modelling air transport demand. Forecasting in the air transport industry is an essential part of planning and managing because of the…
Aircraft routing and crew pairing problems aims at building the sequences of flight legs operated respectively by airplanes and by crews of an airline. Given their impact on airlines operating costs, both have been extensively studied for…
Airline crew pairing optimization problem (CPOP) aims to find a set of flight sequences (crew pairings) that cover all flights in an airline's highly constrained flight schedule at minimum cost. Since crew cost is second only to the fuel…
Motivated by the needs from an airline crew scheduling application, we introduce structured convolutional kernel networks (Struct-CKN), which combine CKNs from Mairal et al. (2014) in a structured prediction framework that supports…
Freighter airlines need to recover both aircraft and cargo schedules when disruptions happen. This process is usually divided into three sequential decisions to recovery flights, aircraft, and cargoes. This study focuses on the integrated…
This paper addresses aircraft delays, emphasizing their impact on safety and financial losses. To mitigate these issues, an innovative machine learning (ML)-enhanced landing scheduling methodology is proposed, aiming to improve automation…
Demand forecasting is extremely important in revenue management. After all, it is one of the inputs to an optimisation method which aim is to maximize revenue. Most, if not all, forecasting methods use historical data to forecast the…
Accurate prediction of flight-level passenger traffic is of paramount importance in airline operations, influencing key decisions from pricing to route optimization. This study introduces a novel, multimodal deep learning approach to the…
The aviation industry has experienced constant growth in air traffic since the deregulation of the U.S. airline industry in 1978. As a result, flight delays have become a major concern for airlines and passengers, leading to significant…
The unit commitment problem is an important optimization problem in the energy industry used to compute the most economical operating schedules of power plants. Typically, this problem has to be solved repeatedly with different data but…
Column generation is an iterative method used to solve a variety of optimization problems. It decomposes the problem into two parts: a master problem, and one or more pricing problems (PP). The total computing time taken by the method is…