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A Decision Support System for Airline Crew Management: Crew Scheduling and Rescheduling

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We propose a decision support system that covers the complete life cycle of the airline crew scheduling process. A tool has been designed to meet the requirements for both planning and operational phase. We develop a general infrastructure for the crew management tasks in which alternative solution methods, such as mathematical programming and heuristics, can be easily incorporated. Besides the conventional two-phase scheduling (crew pairing and crew assignment) in the planning phase, the focus of our research lies on a partially integrated approach including an extension for the consideration of teams during the assignment step. For daily operations, we suggest a dedicated crew recovery approach to handle unexpected disruptions. A test case is presented to illustrate the system’s capabilities in solving a real-life problem for a medium-sized European airline.

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Guo, Y., Suhl, L., Thiel, M.P. (2005). A Decision Support System for Airline Crew Management: Crew Scheduling and Rescheduling. In: Günther, HO., Mattfeld, D.C., Suhl, L. (eds) Supply Chain Management und Logistik. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1625-6_17

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