Airline Operations and Scheduling

Massoud Bazargan is Associate Professor, Production/Operations Management & Operations Research at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Manufacturing/Business Consultant. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Operations Research at the University of Western Sydney, School of Science & Technology, Australia and Research Fellow/ Assistant Professor, Industrial Technology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was also Founder and Chairman of an operations research & industrial engineering consulting firm in Iran. He has published in leading operations research, operations management and simulation journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include transportation, scheduling, man-power planning, supply chain management, cellular manufacturing, safety and simulation.

Introduction; Part I: Planning Optimization: Network optimization; Flight scheduling; Fleet assignment; Aircraft routing; Crew scheduling; Manpower planning; Part II: Operations and Dispatch Optimization: Revenue management; Gate assignment; Irregular operations; Part III: Computation Complexity and Simulation: Computational complexity; Start-up airline case study; Simulation case I; Simulation case II; Appendix A - airport codes; Index.