Tackling uncertainties in aircraft maintenance routing: A review of emerging technologies

HL Ma, Y Sun, SH Chung, HK Chan - Transportation Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aircraft maintenance routing (AMR) is crucial for both passenger airlines and cargo airlines
to maintain flight operations efficiency, meanwhile it ensures that aircraft fulfill the civil …

Airline scheduling optimization: literature review and a discussion of modelling methodologies

Y Xu, S Wandelt, X Sun - Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rapid development of civil aviation over the past decades has not only led to an
increasing competition among airlines, but also the rise of irregularities, with challenges …

A practical dynamic programming based methodology for aircraft maintenance check scheduling optimization

Q Deng, BF Santos, R Curran - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a practical dynamic programming based methodology to optimize the
long-term maintenance check schedule for a fleet of heterogeneous aircraft. It is the first time …

A column generation-based heuristic for aircraft recovery problem with airport capacity constraints and maintenance flexibility

Z Liang, F Xiao, X Qian, L Zhou, X Jin, X Lu… - … Research Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider the aircraft recovery problem (ARP) with airport capacity constraints and
maintenance flexibility. The problem is to re-schedule flights and re-assign aircraft in real …

Airline integrated robust scheduling with a variable neighborhood search based heuristic

Y Xu, S Wandelt, X Sun - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates an airline integrated robust scheduling problem, subsuming three
steps: schedule design, fleet assignment, and aircraft routing, while considering the effects …

A column generation approach for operational flight scheduling and aircraft maintenance routing

X Wen, X Sun, HL Ma, Y Sun - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Aircraft is one of the most expensive resources owned by an airline which should be
properly planned. The aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMRP) generates aircraft …

[HTML][HTML] A mathematical model and algorithms for the aircraft hangar maintenance scheduling problem

Y Qin, ZX Wang, FTS Chan, SH Chung, T Qu - Applied Mathematical …, 2019 - Elsevier
An aircraft hangar maintenance scheduling problem is studied, motivated by the aircraft
heavy maintenance conducted in a hangar operated by an independent maintenance …

A two-stage optimization approach for aircraft hangar maintenance planning and staff assignment problems under MRO outsourcing mode

Y Qin, JH Zhang, FTS Chan, SH Chung, B Niu… - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Aircraft Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) is essential to ensure aviation
safety and air transport operations. An aircraft has to temporally suspend its service and …

Aircraft line maintenance scheduling and optimisation

S Shaukat, M Katscher, CL Wu, F Delgado… - Journal of Air Transport …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the advent of new technologies and more modern aircraft, many of the maintenance
jobs traditionally scheduled for periodic block checks can now be performed in the ''line …

[HTML][HTML] Robust long-term aircraft heavy maintenance check scheduling optimization under uncertainty

T van der Weide, Q Deng, BF Santos - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-term heavy maintenance check schedules are crucial in the aviation industry since
airlines need them to prepare the required maintenance tools, workforce, and aircraft spare …