Dynamic Crew Pairing Recovery

Introduction An aircraft breakdown, crew coming late, or bad weather conditions are examples of disruptions that airlines have to cope with on a daily basis. Even small disruptions might cause infeasibility of airline schedules. Currently, operation controllers of most airlines solve disruptions manually at the day of operation. They attempt to...

Reduced Separation during Final Approach: A procedural time based separation solution to optimize landing delivery

Power-assisted dynamic soaring for a reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Improving the Quality of Transportation of the EC145 and EC145T2

Market share modeling in a newly liberalized lowdemand market

In the last decades, the airline industry experienced a tendency towards airspace deregulation. When airspace is liberalized, the airlines in the market have to re-position themselves the market since new airlines are expected to offer flights in the market. More competition asks for optimal revenue management and positioning of the flights so...

Multiple-Phase Trajectory Optimization for Formation Flight in Civil Aviation

A tool is developed that is able to optimize the trajectories of multiple aircraft that fly in formation in order to obtain the minimum total fuel consumption. Several experiments are conducted to investigate the benefits of formation flight for commercial aircraft. Finally, also the influences of wind and delay on the trajectories of the...