Print Email Facebook Twitter Airline delay management problem with airport capacity constraints and priority decisions Title Airline delay management problem with airport capacity constraints and priority decisions Author Santos, Bruno F. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Wormer, M.M.E.C. (TU Delft Education AE) Achola, T.A.O. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations; Kenya Airways) Curran, R. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Date 2017-08-01 Abstract This paper deals with the Airline Delay Management Problem (ADMP), which can be described as the task of dealing with daily airline operational delays and deciding whether to delay subsequent flights at a hub airport or to have them departing on time. An innovative integer linear programming approach is presented to the capacitated case of the ADMP and airport limitations in terms of bay availability, taxiway capacity and runway separation are incorporated to represent capacity constraints. Fuel cost, passenger compensation, and passenger inconvenience costs are included in the objective function. The decision variables include the re-timing of flight departures and arrivals, the use of the airport capacity over time and the rebooking of passengers in case of missed connections. To guarantee the linearity of the optimization model and fast computational times, a receding horizon modeling framework is adopted. The approach is applied to a case study using real operational and passenger data from an international hub-and-spoke carrier. The case study shows the capability of the linear model to deal with a complete day of operations within a few minutes. The results suggest that the proposed approach can lead to cost reductions of almost 30% during recovery, when compared with the solution from the airline. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is provided to investigate the impact of not including passenger inconvenience costs and of reducing runway capacity. Subject Airline disruption managementBinary linear programmingDelay management problemHub airport capacityPassenger connectivityReceding horizon control To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:28072a74-fe81-4e4f-bf80-388dd3aeb442 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.05.003 Embargo date 2019-05-31 ISSN 0969-6997 Source Journal of Air Transport Management, 63, 34-44 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 Bruno F. Santos, M.M.E.C. Wormer, T.A.O. Achola, R. Curran Files PDF jairtraman.2017.05.003.pdf 627.86 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:28072a74-fe81-4e4f-bf80-388dd3aeb442/datastream/OBJ/view