American Airlines, Inc.

Tze-Yun Lin

Su-Hsia Yang

Mei Zhang

Arunprakash Dhanabal

Nancy Lee Lillo

Pengcheng Zhang

Ronald Wai Yin Chu

Atul Jain

A system and method for aircraft maintenance planning according to which an optimized bill of work is generated for a line maintenance station at which one or more airplanes are parked or are expected to be parked.

Optimized bill of work for aircraft maintenance based on task prioritization and time slot proximity analysis

A method, system and computer program product for efficiently quantifying the economic impact of retiming flights without the necessity of implementing the traditional airline forecasting system from scratch. A forecast module computes the difference in impact prior to and after the retiming of a flight. A flight grouping module, using the computed difference in impact, generates a new schedule, which is used by the forecast module to generate new changes in impact, until the schedule converges. A flyable module generates a list of retimed flights based on the converged schedule for resolving operational infeasibilities of the latter. The forecast module generates a profit for each of the retimed flights, which is used by a scheduling module to improve the schedule, which is used by the forecast module to revise the economic impacts for the list of all retimed flights. This process continues until no further economic improvement can be made.

Quantifying revenue and profit impact of retiming flights while taking into consideration non-linear ramifications and constraints

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