Airline Planning and Optimisation

This course provides students with knowledge to analyse planning problems related to airline operations and to develop modeling approaches to solve these problems. The focus is on the relationship between planning models and their operational implications. It starts with a general overview of the airline demand analysis, followed by the study of the planning framework which airlines operate in. This planning framework includes strategic decisions, namely fleet planning and network development, tactical decisions, such as scheduling and maintenance planning.

Group assignments - divided into two parts (60%)

Final exam (40%)

The students need to have a grade equal to or higher than 5.5 in both examination elements. The group assignments are done by groups of (maximum) 3 students.