JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Airline Economics, Markets and Demand: Airline Terminology and Definitions-basic airline profit equation, Air transportation markets, Origin-Destination market demand, Air travel demand models, Airline competition and market share; Airline Pricing Theory and Practice: Airline prices and O-D markets, airline differential pricing, recent trends in airline pricing, airline pricing strategies; Airline Revenue Management: Computerized Revenue Management Systems, Flight Overbooking, EMSR Model for flight leg revenue optimization, network revenue management, revenue management for less restricted fare structures ; Airline operating Costs: Airline cost categorization, operating expense comparisons, comparison of airline unit costs; Measures of airline productivity: aircraft productivity and labour productivity

UNIT - II

The Airline Planning Process: Fleet Planning-airline fleet decisions, fleet planning methods; Route Planning- Hub economics and network structure, Route planning and evaluation; Airline Schedule Development-Frequency planning, time table development, fleet assignment and aircraft rotations; Integrated airline planning

UNIT - III

Airline Schedule Optimization: Schedule optimization problems, Fleet Assignment-The fleet assignment problem, fleet assignment solutions/impacts, extending basic fleet assignment models, Schedule Design optimization-Modeling the optimization of flight retiming and fleet assignment problems, importance of modelling competition in schedule design; Crew Scheduling- The crew pairing problem, crew scheduling problem solutions and impacts; Aircraft Maintenance Routing and crew pairing optimization, Future directions for schedule optimization

UNIT - IV

Airline Flight Operations: Regulation and scheduling-General regulatory requirements, flight crew regulation and Training, flight crew scheduling, Flight crew activities during a typical flight-flight crew sign-in, operations/planning, pre-flight, pre-departure, gate departure, taxi-out, take off, terminal area departure, climb, cruise, descent, terminal area arrival, final approach, landing rollout, taxi-in, parking, post-flight

UNIT - V

Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness: Irregular operations: Managing irregular operations- Airline operations control centers, options for schedule recovery from irregular operations, Schedule recovery from irregular operations: objectives

R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.

and process, Evaluating the costs of recovery options: The challenges imparted by uncertainty and downstream effects; Robust Airline Scheduling: Robust schedule design, robust fleet assignment, robust aircraft routing, robust crew scheduling

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Peter Belobaba, Amedeo Odoni, Cynthia Barnhart (Editors), The Global Airline Industry, Second Edition, Wiley (2016), R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.