Logistics of Airline Companies

Aim

After the course, the participants should be able to:

• account for the factors that affect the passengers choice of travel
• model demand for airline services
• construct models to optimize the resource management for airlines
• account for methods to utlize the aircraft capacity
• calulate the number of seats to reserve for full fare passengers
• calculate the overbooking point
• give examples on how information sharing may lead to increased efficiency
• account for the consequences of perturbations for an airline, and the actions used to mimimize these consequences Course content demand modelling and forecasting resource management revenue management perturbation management Teaching and working methods The course consists of lectures and seminars. The lectures give the theoretical background. During the seminars, assignments and case studies are discussed. Examination TEN3Written examination5 creditsU, 3, 4, 5UPG3Seminars1 creditsU, GMandatory and active participation in UPG3 is required. Grades for examination modules are decided in accordance with the assessment criteria presented at the start of the course. Grades Four-grade scale, LiU, U, 3, 4, 5 Other information About teaching and examination languageThe teaching language is presented in the Overview tab for each course. The examination language relates to the teaching language as follows: If teaching language is “Swedish”, the course as a whole could be given in Swedish, or partly in English. Examination language is Swedish, but parts of the examination can be in English.If teaching language is “English”, the course as a whole is taught in English. Examination language is English.If teaching language is “Swedish/English”, the course as a whole will be taught in English if students without prior knowledge of the Swedish language participate. Examination language is Swedish or English depending on teaching language.OtherThe course is conducted in such a way that there are equal opportunities with regard to sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age.The planning and implementation of a course should correspond to the course syllabus. The course evaluation should therefore be conducted with the course syllabus as a starting point. The course is campus-based at the location specified for the course, unless otherwise stated under “Teaching and working methods”. Please note, in a campus-based course occasional remote sessions could be included. Department Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap Course literature BooksAbdelghany, Ahmed F., Abdelghany, Khaled, (2009) Modeling applications in the airline industry. [Elektronisk resurs] ISBN: 0754678741, 9780754678748, 0754697258, 9780754697251, 9780754678748 Farnham : Ashgate, 2009

Content

• demand modelling and forecasting
• resource management
• revenue management
• perturbation management