16.75
Airline Management
Spring 2006
Topics
- Course Introduction
- Airline Economics Review
- Operating Costs and Productivity
- Load and Spill Analysis
- Airline Schedule Development
- Passenger Choice Models
- Introduction to ePODS Airline Management Game
- ePODS Work Session
- Fleet Assignment Optimization (Prof. Barnhart)
- Route Planning and Network Strategies
- Scheduling and Operational Constraints
- Airline Fleet Planning Issues
- AMG Work Session
- Revenue Management Concept and Models
- Overbooking Methods
- O-D/Network Seat Inventory Control
- Airline Pricing Structures and Strategies
- Airline Revenue Management Systems
- Summary: Airline Management Challenges
Readings
- Berge, Matthew E., and Craig A. Hopperstad. “Demand Driven Dispatch: A Method for Dynamic Aircraft Capacity Assignment, Methods and Algorithms.” Operations Research 40, no. 1 (1993): 153-168.
- Smith, Barry C., John F. Leimkuhler, and Ross M. Darrow. “Yield Management at American Airlines.” Interfaces 22, no. 1 (1992): 8-31.
- Belobaba, P. “Airline Network Revenue Management: Recent Developments and State of the Practice.” In Handbook of Airline Economics. 2nd ed. Edited by Darryl Jenkins. Washington, DC: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 0079823947.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.