Events that cause disruptions to air company flight schedules transporting passengers and
cargo are commonplace in practice, and their operational and financial consequences are …

The operational aircraft maintenance routing problem (OAMRP) assigns the aircraft in a fleet
to scheduled flights while satisfying maintenance requirements. Aviation rules enforce the …

This paper addresses the problem faced by a Brazilian oil and gas company of recovering
flights for passenger transportation (mainly teams of employees) to maritime units. Due to …

Although optimization techniques have been successfully applied for a number of airline
operations, aircraft recovery remains a challenge for both practitioners and researchers due …

We address the aircraft recovery problem faced by a Brazilian oil and gas company during
its offshore operations. This problem involves hiring helicopters from an outsourced …

Transporting passengers to maritime units is one of the most critical factors in the oil
industry. Optimizing costs and reducing workforce exposure to flight hours is paramount. The …

The choice and distribution of the optimal fleet mix of helicopters to service the offshore air
operation is an important logistical problem that has a potential to reduce costs considered …

The safety of operations is vital in any process in the oil and gas sector, especially given that
increasingly more hydrocarbon reserves are discovered in non-conventional remote and …

The paper considers a special class of routing problems with the objective of minimizing the
passengers risk. A major area of application of the low risk models is helicopter …

In offshore field development projects, the operating and transport expenses are crucial part
of the total budget. In this paper, we introduce a new helicopter routing problem with splitting …