AGIFORS Airline Operations 2010
Enabling Dependability and Efficiency

 

Conference Agenda

   
Sunday - 23 May 2010  
15:00 - 18:00 Delegate Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception at the Sebel Hotel
Sponsored by Jeppesen
Monday - 24 May 2010  
08:00 - 08:30 Conference Overview and Introductions
Michael Clarke and Tim Niznik, AGIFORS
08:30 - 09:00 AGIFORS 50th Anniversary
Michael Clarke - AGIFORS
09:00 - 09:15 Keynote Address and Welcome
Michael Young - Virgin Blue

09:15 - 10:00 Dynamic Cost Index Management in Flight Planning and Flight Following
Steve Altus - Jeppesen

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Economic Trends and their Likely Effect on Airline Operations
Beatrice Roloff - M2p Consulting

11:15 - 12:00 Robust Airline Scheduling: Minimising propagated delay in an integrated routing and crewing framework
Richard Wu - University of New South Wales

12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
Sponsored by Amadeus

Vendor Presentations

13:30 - 13:45 INFORM GmbH

13:45 - 14:00 Lufthansa Systems

14:00 - 14:15 Jeppesen

14:15 - 14:30 Constraint Technologies International

14:30 - 14:45 Chengdu Soft-Intelligent Technology Ltd

14:45 - 15:00 Sabre Airline Solutions

15:00 - 15:30 After tea break
15:30 - 17:00 Vendor Exhibitions
18:00 - 22:00 BBQ Dinner and Tour at Castlemaine Perkins Brewery
Sponsored by Nationwide Hospitality Australia

Tuesday - 25 May 2010  
08:00 - 08:30 Airline Updates
08:30 - 09:15 Accelerating Operations Control with Business Intelligence Solutions
Gesine Varfis – Lufthansa Consulting

09:15 - 10:00 Short Term Maintenance Allocation
Michael Clarke - Sabre Airline Solutions

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Integrating Tail and Gate Assignment
Amy Cohn - University of Michigan

11:00 - 11:30 Modifying Lines of Flight for Improved Robustness
Amy Cohn - University of Michigan

11:30 - 12:00 Better decision making by improved Operations Control Center
George Webster - Lufthansa Systems

12:00 - 13:15 Business luncheon
13:15 - 14:00 An Optimization Based Approach to Airline Integrated Recovery
Gustaf Solveling - Georgia Institute of Technology

14:00 - 15:00 Emissions Management and Impact on Your Business
(Panel Discussion)

Moderated by Tom Samuel - Sabre Airline Solutions

15:00 - 15:30 After tea break

15:30 - 17:00 Vendor Exhibitions

18:00 - 22:00 Dinner Cruise on the Brisbane River
Sponsored by Sabre Airline Solutions

Wednesday - 26 May 2010

08:00 - 08:30

Airline Updates

08:30 - 09:15

Large Scale Passenger Reaccomodation Optimization
Semi Gabteni - Amadeus
 

09:15 - 10:00 Incorporating fatigue modelling into optimised pairing and roster
Jim Kenneally - Constraint Technologies International

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:15

The Must, the Best --- Two Different Types of Rules in Auto Crew Planning
Xianchang Wang - Chengdu Soft-Intelligent Technology Ltd

11:15 - 12:00 Focusing Efficiently on Disruptions with Advanced Visualization Tools
Luis Alvarez - Lufthansa Systems

12:00 - 13:30

Business luncheon

13:30 - 14:15

Reducing Roster Generation Effort and Managing Employee Contract Complexity
Xuehua Lu - Sabre Airline Solutions

14:15 - 15:00 Towards Optimum Hub Operations
Gustaf Solveling - Georgia Institute of Technology

15:00 - 15:30

After tea break

15:30 - 17:00

Business Meeting/Closing Ceremony

 
 
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