Aircraft Maintenance Routing

Aircraft maintenance routing consists of deciding the journey of each aircraft. In this journey an aircraft should periodically visit maintenance stations in order to undertake maintenance as dictated by regulations. The objective of maintenance routing is to minimize the costs of maintenance, while maximizing the revenue from through flights.

Need for Integrated Optimization

The need for Optimization Integration comes from the fact that the aircraft types to fly each flight are already decided in the fleet assignment stage. As a result fleet assignment decisions influence the costs of maintenance routing.

SchedulAir™, however, takes into account simultaneously both fleet assignment and maintenance routing when optimizing (it also takes into account crew scheduling).

Back to Airline Scheduling (Integrated Optimization) project.

Bibliography

Clarke, L., Johnson, E., Nemhauser, G., and Zhu, Z. (1997). The aircraft rotation problem. Annals of Operations Research, 69:33-46.
Gopalan, R. and Talluri, K. (1998). The aircraft maintenance routing problem. Operations Research, 46(2):260-271.
Talluri, K. (1998). The four-day aircraft maintenance routing problem. Transportation Science, 32(1):43-53.