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Flight Passenger Behavior and Airline Fleet Assignment

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Flight passenger behavior comprises, for example, booking requests as well as cancelations and the no-show phenomenon before the departure of an airplane while airline fleet assignment describes the task of putting together among other things—but above all—an attractive schedule of origin–destination flight connections with corresponding takeoff and landing times. We propose an approach that takes into account the interrelations between flight passenger behavior and airline fleet assignment and integrates aircraft-type allocation to flight legs, the treatment of different booking classes, the offering of specific as well as flexible products to flight passengers, and overbooking decisions to avoid empty seats in airplanes. An exemplary description of how the new approach reacts to alterations of the underlying situation is added to show the flexibility and advantages of our model formulation.

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  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Wolfgang Gaul & Christoph Winkler

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    Tadashi Imaizumi

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    Atsuho Nakayama

  3. School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoru Yokoyama

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Gaul, W., Winkler, C. (2020). Flight Passenger Behavior and Airline Fleet Assignment. In: Imaizumi, T., Nakayama, A., Yokoyama, S. (eds) Advanced Studies in Behaviormetrics and Data Science. Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2700-5_4

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