Combining operational and environmental sustainability for an integrated flight scheduling and aircraft routing model of a full-cargo carrier

This study proposes a flight scheduling model with an added aircraft emission model to solve the schedule design, aircraft routing and cargo routing problems for a full-cargo airline, where aircraft emissions are explicitly part of the decision-making process. Our model considers both operational sustainability (maximisation of profit) and...

A dynamic optimization model on the routing and maintenance scheduling of aircraft for individual tasks

Increasing competition amongst airlines necessitates them to improve the efficiency of their operations. Even though maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) represent a significant portion of an airline’s operational costs, aircraft maintenance scheduling is often still a manual process, producing suboptimal solutions. Airlines typically operate...

Feasibility of climate-optimized air traffic routing for trans-Atlantic flights

Current air traffic routing is motivated by minimizing economic costs, such as fuel use. In addition to the climate impact of CO2 emissions from this fuel use, aviation contributes to climate change through non-CO2 impacts, such as changes in atmospheric ozone and methane concentrations and formation of contrail-cirrus. These non-CO2 impacts...

Analysis of driving parameters for green flight trajectories

Climate change is an important problem nowadays. There are several industries causing this problem. One of them is the air transport industry. In order to reduce its induced climate impact there are different approaches: design of new aircrafts or engines, use of alternative fuels, more efficient air traffic management, or re-routing. All of...