1. Applications of Operations
Research in the Airline
Industry
PRESENTED BY:
AJIT NAVI 2GI17ME012
AKHIL SHIRAHATTI 2GI17ME014
AKHILESH HONGEKAR 2GI17ME015

2. INTRODUCTION
 The airline industry offers the service of transportation, where by passengers or
cargo are conveyed by flights from several sources to the pursued terminuses.
 Essentially, the significant aspects to be considered while evaluating the market
ability or the appeal of the product are the time, accuracy, functionality, quality, and
price of the service.
 As recognized by passengers, the above-mentioned attributes transform into flexible
schedules, on-time flights, safety, satisfactory in-flight services, air traffic control,
appropriate baggage handling, and convenient ticket purchases.
 In order to deliver these aspects to the air transport consumers, the direct means
that are desirable to develop the product include aircrafts, crew, and airport facilities
such as runways and gates.
 Maintenance bases, fuel services, food services, and crew training facilities are
additional supporting resources which are also required.

3. ANALYSIS
1. Scheduling of Flights
 Managing one flight might sound difficult but imagine that
the airline industry manages an average of 50,000 flights
where most of them are inter-connecting various places.
 The airline scheduling planning is a very complex matrix
where every arrival time is a deliberate result of the
scheduled flight times that are systematic.
 For the ease of this, airplanes use something known as
“hubs”.
 There exists a model which provides a framework for flight
schedule planning problem which considers network-level
competition with other airlines.

4.  Once the airlines are provided with the desired service frequency in different city pairs for
every fleet type, an operational flight timetable is produced by the framework that helps in
maximizing the airline's revenue, while satisfying other critical operational requirements.
 This framework, also called as the GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA), integrates a
randomized search technique. The GA helps to seek a near-optimal schedule and on the
other hand, the competition analysis model and the resource-tracking model gauge the
competency of each proposed schedule.

5. 2. Air Traffic Control
 Congestion problems are becoming critical in many airports and air sectors.
 To avoid the Air Traffic Control (ATC) from overloading, a planning activity known as Air Traffic Flow
Management (ATFM) is brought into the picture, in order to anticipate and prevent overload and limit
resulting delays.
 The introduction of automated interactive planning tools is considered necessary to assist ATC
managers and controllers, so that they capable of improving the safety and efficiency of future high-
density terminal area ATC operations.
 The landing and take-off operations are the fundamental activities in a terminal area air space on
several runways.

6.  To avoid fatal clash between the arriving and departing
flights, Runway Scheduling Process is employed that
sets a timing to with very few seconds for take off and
landing operations, which changes and adapts to the
new traffic flow.
 Flight Path Generation Process is employed to
generate a set of landing and take off flight paths.
 These two processes can be called Terminal Area
Operations Planning Processes and would be utilized on
a minute basis.
 There is also a longer-term tactical Terminal Area
Planning Process which is connected to planning the
outline of the runways to be used at every airport in the
terminal area throughout the following hours.

7. 3. Human Resource Management
 The human resources manager has a very important role to play in the airlines industry as
he is responsible for the selection of staff in the airlines and there are many such tasks
which will make a HR head take a quantitative solution to the problem.
 Currently India is facing a big problem –shortage of pilots. An expanding middle class and
the increase in purchasing power has made contributed to making India one of the fastest
growing aviation markets in the world.
 Operations research can assist the HR manager to visualize the present and imminent effect
of diminishing population growth and aging.

8.  As in any other OR project, the current situation needs to be analyzed which is the first
step then identify the distribution of the current age the goals of the company in terms of
size and capabilities of the required workforce.
 Strategies to align the available and essential workforce can be formulated and evaluated
when both the development of the required and available workforce is modelled.
 With the help of this approach, the HR manager will be capable of recognizing, along with
the other managers in the board, the most suitable scheme to ensure that the right
expanse and class of people will always be at disposal.

9. 4. Security
 It is believed that there is a high chance that dispensing security matters to private
players would prove to be detrimental to the security standards of airports and aircrafts.
 It must be noted in this matter that safety and security in aviation is of paramount
importance.
 Airports and aircrafts have been pursued by terrorist groups in the past, and it is
conceivable that any loose end in security will be taken advantage of by such malicious
people.
 Any sort of ignorance towards the issue can result in the loss of a lot of lives and
substantial damage to property.

10. CONCLUSION
 The air transport sector has experienced enormous growth during the past 50 years with the
assistance of one of the principal contributors which is Operations Research.
 The advancement of paradigms and problems has been encouraged by matters and
complications combatted in practice and has led, in numerous occurrences, to insights of a
general nature and to prominent methodological advances in the Operations Research field at
large.
 Airlines, airports, and ATM service providers, at this point, are constituted of OR models coupled
with algorithms which are disseminated throughout the sector.
 In view of the multiple barriers that it faces at present, we can presume an enduring central role
for OR in the air transport industry.

11. Thank You