Duty-period-based network model for crew rescheduling in European airlines

Duty-period-based network model for crew rescheduling in European airlines

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Article ID: iaor20081401
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 255
End Page Number: 278
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Journal: Journal of Scheduling
Authors: ,
Keywords: scheduling, personnel & manpower planning, programming: branch and bound
Abstract:

Airline rescheduling is a relatively new field in airline Operations Research but increasing amounts of traffic will make disturbances to the original schedule more frequent and more severe. Thus, the need to address the various problems arising from this situation with systematic, cost-efficient approaches is becoming more urgent. One such problem is crew rescheduling where after a disturbance in the crew schedule the aim is to determine new crew assignments that minimize the ‘impact’ on the original schedule. In this work we present a new duty-period-based formulation for the airline crew rescheduling problem that is tailored to the needs of European airlines. It uses a new type of resource constraints to efficiently cover the various labor regulations. A solution method based on branch-and-price is tested on various rescheduling scenarios, each with several distinct cases. Results show that the solution method is capable of providing solutions within the short period of time available to a rescheduler after a disturbance occurs.

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