AGIFORS Airline Operations 2008
Optimizing the Schedule Life Cycle

 

Conference Proceedings

Keynote: KLM VP Operational Plan Management
Ryanne van der Eijk - Air France-KLM
Simulating the Stability of Flight Schedules by the use of a Capacity Model
Birgit Klempert, Florian Wikenhauser – Lufthansa Airlines

Maintenance Reachability: Robust Schedule and Route Construction at SWA
Alex Heinold - Southwest Airlines

Keynote: The New Dutch Railway Timetable
Leo Kroon - Erasmus University Rotterdam (2008 INFORMS Edelman Award Winner)
Flight Operations Health Check
David Ploog - m2p Consulting
Improving Operational Performance Without Increasing Planned Costs
Marcial Lapp, Amy Cohn, S. Ahmad-Beygi – University of Michigan
Virtual Spares
John-Paul Clarke – Georgia Institute of Technology
Simulating Flight Delays in Airport Ground Staff Scheduling
Joerg Herbers – Inform GmbH
The Potential of Tail Assignment Optimization
Thomas Schickinger – Lufthansa Systems
Discussion: Linking Planning and Operational Performance
Facilitated by Amy Cohn, Tim Niznik, and Michael Clarke
Trends in Flight Operations. Future HCC vs. OCC
David Ploog - m2p Consulting
Airline Operations Control Modeling
Goran Stojkovic – Jeppesen
Airbus A-380 Aircraft Boarding Strategies A Simulation Study
Massoud Bazargan – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
A Well Oiled Engine with ESCapE
Charlotte Elpers – Air France-KLM
A Simulation Study to AirTran Airways Super Tug Operations
Massoud Bazargan – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Multiobjective Gate Assignment Problem
Sergey Shebalov – Sabre Holdings
Optimizing Composition of Flights in Peak Hours at Hubs
Jan Veldhuis, Guillaume Burghouwt – University of Amsterdam
Integrated Gate and Bus Assignment at Amsterdam Schiphol
Marjan van den Akker - Utrecht University
Fairness in the Aircraft Landing Problem
Maarten Soomer, G.M. Koole – VU University Amsterdam
Conference Awards

Best innovation award - Virtual Spares
John-Paul Clarke – Georgia Institute of Technology

Best presentation award - A Well Oiled Engine with ESCapE
Charlotte Elpers – Air France-KLM

Best airline update - American Airlines
Tuell Green

Best vendor presentation - Jeppesen
Goran Stojkovic

 

Please refer to previous years conference proceedings for a complete listing of technical talks given in the past at AGIFORS Airline Operations meetings.