Airline cockpit crew scheduling

Shangyao Yan, Jei Chi Chang

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Abstract

Essential to airline operations, cockpit crew scheduling has not been researched much in the past. In this research we developed a model and two scheduling networks, using real data from a Taiwan airline, to help minimize cockpit crew costs and to plan for proper cockpit crew pairings. The model was formulated as a set-partitioning problem. A column generation approach was proposed to efficiently solve the problem. To show how well the model could be applied to the real world, a case study regarding the international operations of a Taiwan airline was performed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)501-511
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Journal of Operational Research
Volume136
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2002

Keywords

  • Cockpit crew
  • Column generation
  • Pairing
  • Set-partitioning problem
  • Shortest path problem

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