AGIFORS Revenue Management and Cargo 2009

 

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Conference Agenda

Sunday – May 17

 

15:00 – 17:00

Conference Registration

 

18:00 – 20:00

Conference Opening Ceremony

Welcome Reception


Monday – May 18

 

08:00 – 17:00

Conference Registration

09:00 – 09:40

Conference Overview and Airline Updates

Gina Morello

 

09:40 – 10:20

Keynote Speaker

Customer Centric Dynamic Pricing and Availability

Steve Pinchuk

 

10:20 – 10:35

Coffee break

 

10:35 – 11:05

Using uncertainty products in the airline industry to fill the gaps and increase revenues

David Post

 

 

11:05 – 11:35

A risk ratio procedure for estimation of market size and parameters
Kalyan Talluri

  

 

11:35 – 12:15

On bounds for Network Revenue Management

Kalyan Talluri

 

12:15 – 13:20

 

 

Lunch in Hotel

Sponsored by ORTEC

13:20 – 14:00

 

 

 

 

Optimization of Mixed Fare Structures: Theory and Applications

Thomas Fiig, Karl Isler, Craig Hopperstad and Peter Belobaba

 

14:00 – 14:40

Fare Families: RM Forecasting and Optimization Models

Peter Belobaba and Craig Hopperstad

 

 

14:40 – 15:20

 

 

 

Impacts of Matching Competitor RM Seat Availability
Olivier d'Huart and Peter Belobaba

15:20 – 15:40

Coffee break

 

15:40 – 16:20

 

 

 

Computing Bid-prices for Revenue Management under Customer Choice Behavior

Juan Manuel Chaneton and Gustavo Vulcano

 

16:20 – 17:00

 

 

 

Multivariate Demand Modeling and Estimation from Censored Sales
Catalina Stefanescu

17:00 – 17:40

Sandbox Testing a New Revenue Management Concept
Fernando Castejon Solanas, Kalyan Talluri, Begoña Codina and Juan Magaz

 

18:30 – 21:00

 

 

 

Evening Networking program

Canal Dinner Cruise

Sponsored by Sabre Airline Solution

 

 

 

Tuesday – May 19

RM TRACK

 

09:00 – 09:30

 

 

 

Integrating choice-based models with capacity-based RM routines

Mark Ferguson and Laurie Garrow

 

09:3010:10

 

 

 

Application of a Revenue Management Simulator to drive Strategy

Debraj Basumallick and Manmeet Singh

 

10:10 – 10:50

 

 

 

Forecast Evaluation and Simulation Based Key Performance Indicators

Catherine Cleophas

10:50 – 11:05

Coffee break

 

11:05 – 11:45

 

 

Demand Arrival Order and RM Controls

Guillermo Gallego, Lin Li and Richard Ratliff

11:45 – 12:25

 

 

 

An Overview of RM Optimization with Dependent Demands

Larry Weatherford and Richard Ratliff

12:25 – 13:20

 

 

Lunch in Hotel

Sponsored by JDA Software

13:20 – 14:00

Availability Calculation Based on Robust Optimization

Benoit Lardeux and Oriana Goyons

 

 

14:00 – 14:40

 

 

 

On the robustness of the network based Revenue Opportunity Model
Christian Temath
, Michael Frank and Stefan Poelt

 

14:40 – 15:20

 

 

 

An Improved Dynamic Programming Decomposition Approach for Network Revenue
Dan Zhang

15:20 – 15:40

  

Coffee break

  

15:40 – 16:20

 

 

 

Revenue Increase by O and D Optimization at Lufthansa

Jutta Rockmann and Christopher Alder

 

 

16:20 – 17:00

 

 

 

Practical Aspects of the Hybrid Approach to Revenue Management

Maarten Oosten and Darius Walczak

 

 

17:00 – 17:40

 

 

  

Stationary of Demand Arrival Rate Process and Nesting Booking

Jean Michel Chapuis and Lindsay Temaiana

17:40 – 17:50

 

 

 

Closing Ceremony

Gina Morello

 

Tuesday – May 19

CARGO TRACK

 

09:00 – 09:05

 

Opening remarks

09:05 09:40

 

 

Cargo Revenue Optimization at American Airlines

Laura Freeland

 

 

09:40 10:15

 

 

Cargo Revenue Management:  Immediate Application

Larry Hou

 

 

10:15 10:50

 

 

 

Variable Costs in Cargo Revenue Management:  Challenges and Opportunities

Kenneth Fuhrmann and Steven Balleby

10:50 11:05

Coffee break

 

11:05 11:40

 

 

Maximizing Network Contribution: An Insight into Managing Complexities of Allotments and Free Sale Demand

Sandeep Parmekar

 

11:40 12:15

 

 

 

Modeling Multidimensionality in Air Cargo Demand Forecasting

Jamison Graff

12:15 12:25

 

Closing discussion

12:25 13:20

 

 

Lunch in Hotel

Sponsored by JDA Software

 

 

 
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