Article ID: | iaor20051446 |
Country: | Serbia |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 155 |
End Page Number: | 170 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
Journal: | Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research |
Authors: | You Peng-Sheng |
Keywords: | revenue management |
Consider a multi-period multi-fare class airline booking problem related to a two-leg airline network. Travel requests include outbound, inbound trip, and round trips. The round-trip refers to a journey comprising both outbound and inbound trips. To develop a dynamic-nested booking decision-making system for the airline network, this study designs a dynamic model that enables the airline reservations system to devise a set of dynamic decision rules for any given booking status. The booking process is found to be controlled by some set of booking thresholds.