Fleet Sizing and Scheduling of Electric Thin-Haul Aircraft: A Column Generation and Large Neighborhood Search Based Method

This Thesis proposes an optimisation model to minimize operational cost of a fleet of electric thin-haul aircraft under a minimum RPK (Revenue-Passenger Kilometer) constraint. A solution that minimises cost per RPK can be found by varying the minimum RPK level. The solutions describes how many aircraft are needed, as well as a schedule for each...