An analysis of airport–airline vertical relationships with risk sharing contracts under asymmetric information structures

We analyze the double moral hazard problem at the joint venture type airport–airline vertical relationship, where two parties both contribute efforts to the joint venture but neither of them can see the other’s efforts. With the continuous-time stochastic dynamic programming model, we show that by the de-centralized utility maximizations of two parties under very strict conditions, i.e., optimal efforts’ cost being negligible and their risk averse parameters both asymptotically approaching to zero, the vertical contract could be agreed as the optimal sharing rule, which is the linear function of the final state with the slope being the product of their productivity difference and uncertainty (diffusion rate) level index.If both parties’ productivities are same, or the diffusion rate of the underlying process is unity, optimal linear sharing rule do not depend on the final state. If their conditions not dependent on final state are symmetric as well, then risk sharing disappears completely. In numerical examples, we illustrate the complex impact of uncertainty increase and end-of-period load factor improvement on the optimal sharing rule, and the relatively simple impact on total utility levels.     

运输网络中舱位控制模型与策略

为了提高运输网络系统的收益管理水平,以民航客运航线网络为背景,从策略、模型和方法3个方面系统地研究了网络舱位控制的基本问题.针对控制策略,对分块预订限制、虚拟嵌套和竞标价格等策略的优劣性和适用条件进行了探讨.分析了传统的控制模型,并对新出现的复杂模型分为随机动态规划模型、混合模型、多阶段随机规划模型和Scenario树模型进行研究.讨论了基于资源分解的网络舱位控制方法,指出应该从资源分解的原则和单资源舱位控制模型2个方面去构建网络策略.研究结果表明:网络舱位控制模型和方法只有与适合的控制策略有效结合才能达到期望总收益最大化的目的.     

飞机排班一体化模型与算法研究

为了改善航班计划两阶段完成的次优性,将机型指派、路线选择与机尾号指派综合考虑,构建了飞机排班的整数规划与约束规划杂交一体化模型.通过设计了一种基于约束编程思想的列生成算法对该问题进行求解.最后,通过航空公司实例数据验证了模型算法的正确性和有效性.     

不同航班时段的收益贡献率分析

一直以来,航空公司都是根据经验来选择航班时段并确定航班时刻。事实上,航班时段的选择对增加航班收益的作用不可忽视,只依靠经验来选择时段是难以保证航班收益最大的。本文从定义航班的时段贡献率着手,用三次样条插值法对缺失数据进行插补,并应用灰色关联法进行规律同一性判断,剔除奇点数据序列,最终得出不同时段的航班收益贡献率存在明显差别,收益在相同时段则极为相近且具有相对稳定性。本文结果可以作为航空公司制定航班计划的决策依据。     

Heuristic approach to the airline schedule disturbances problem

Abstract

When disturbances make it impossible to realise the planned flight schedule, the dispatcher at the airline operational centre defines a new flight schedule based on airline policy, in order to reduce the negative effects of these perturbations. Depending on airline policy, when designing the new flight schedule, the dispatcher delays or cancels some flights and reassigns some flights to available aircraft. In this paper, a decision support system (DSS) for solving the airline schedule disturbances problem is developed aiming to assist decision makers in handling disturbances in real-time. The system is based on a heuristic algorithm, which generates a list of different feasible schedules ordered according to the value of an objective function. The dispatcher can thus select and implement one of them. In this paper, the possibilities of DSS are illustrated by real numerical examples that concern JAT Airways' flight schedule disturbances.     

Differences in air passengers’ buying behaviour: findings from Korean and Australian international passengers

Abstract

This paper investigates how air passengers’ expectations, ticket price, airline service quality, value, passenger satisfaction and airline image determine their buying behaviour. To test the conceptual frameworks, path analysis was applied to data collected from Korean and Australian international passengers to examine differences between these two groups. Further analyses were undertaken on different passenger segments between national and foreign airline passengers. The results of the path analysis reveal that air passengers’ buying behaviour differs significantly between Korean and Australian international passengers. Results also reveal that the determinants of air passengers’ buying behaviour differ by airlines.