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Scheers, Elise (author)With the aviation sector growing each year, the need for a reduced climate impact is becoming increasingly important. Electrification of the propulsion system is believed to offer promising avenues in achieving this reduction. Additionally, airlines operating these aircraft have to adapt their operations and network to optimally utilize these...master thesis 2023
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Lampe, Reinoud (author)Reducing fuel consumption is an increasingly important topic within aviation. One approach to accomplish this goal is reducing excess fuel weight being loaded on aircraft. Flight dispatchers and pilots load extra fuel to account for uncertainties present in trip fuel consumption, which is currently computed by the flight planning system (FPS)....master thesis 2022
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Hoogendoorn, Rik (author)During arrival waves at hub airports the surrounding airspaces can be congested, resulting in flight delays. To solve this congestion problem one of the current solutions is to sequence flights whilst they are still en-route by using an Extended Arrival Manager (E-AMAN). This paper aims at improving this E-AMAN concept by tackling two of its...master thesis 2022
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Lumeij, Maryette (author)Reducing the impact of flying is a concern in the aviation industry, especially on the short haul flights. KL Cityhopper (KLC) noticed they create food waste onboard of their European flights because they have a one-fits-all catering solution. They are aware that all back-up food and beverage options brought into the air cause extra weight and...master thesis 2022
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Kotzeva, Zori (author)The airline industry is a complex industry. It has geographically spread employees, safety threats, partnerships with regional firms and other airlines, changing government regulations, sustainability, and flight shaming (Deloitte, 2016). Next to these complexities, the airline industry is very competitive and commoditized. The commoditization...master thesis 2022
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Gambetta, Luis (author)In the airline industry revenue and inventory is managed tightly, with the intent to sell each seat at the right price to the right customer at the right time. This does not always go to plan and seats remain unsold, or demand can be greater than what is available. The question then becomes how can capacity and revenue be managed more...master thesis 2022
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Eikelenboom, Berend (author)Airlines frequently deal with unexpected disruptions, which have to be resolved in order to resume their operations again. Decision-support tools help airlines with disruption management. However, long computational times are associated with integrated recovery models that compute globally optimal solutions, which makes these tools unfit for...master thesis 2022
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Kadioğlu, Sena (author)The airline industry is going through a big transformation. The institutional environment as well as the industry itself has changed. Competition with the entry of the low-cost carriers in a market that used to be dominated by flagship carriers and societal pressure regarding sustainability on airlines with COVID-19 state aids increased, while...master thesis 2022
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van Kessel, Paul J. (author), Freeman, Floris C. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author)Airline maintenance task scheduling takes place in a disruptive environment. The stochastic arrival of corrective maintenance tasks and changes in both fleet and resource availability require schedules to be continuously adjusted. An optimal schedule ensures that all tasks are executed before their due date in both an efficient (at minimum...journal article 2022
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Hofman, Sam (author)This paper introduces a new two-stage stochastic optimisation approach for the strategic airline crew planning problem with uncertain demand. The developed model provides the airline with a cockpit crew composition plan per crew position before the flight schedule and crew demand are known. This is done by estimating future crew demand and by...master thesis 2021
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Beukers, Koen (author)Flight planning is a process of optimisation that is commonly solved by complex software tools. Quantifying the quality of such a system is for the users an unsolved problem. This paper proposes a method that measures the inefficiencies in different domains to gain insights in the performance of flight planning tools. The established assessment...master thesis 2021
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De Decker, Glenn (author)The European aviation sector agrees that a mix of several smaller operational innovations collectively have great potential to help shortening the pathway towards net zero aviation. Nevertheless, from the operator's point of view, hardly any insights have been provided on how the sustainability perspective aligns with industry specific corporate...master thesis 2021
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Klitsie, J.B. (author)Large and mature organisations, with their access to knowledge, capital and customers, are perfectly positioned to walk the road from invention to innovation; to turn promising breakthrough technologies and creative concepts into profitable and scalable business opportunities. However, these organisations rarely generate winds of creative...doctoral thesis 2021
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Seoane Álvarez, Maria (author)<br/>Aviation emissions present a significant contribution to climate change. The rate at which new technology is developed cannot suffice the emission reduction requirements for the growth of this industry. Therefore, new areas of improvement, such as operational changes, should be considered. The inclusion of stop-overs in long-haul routes can...master thesis 2021
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De Jonghe, Orelio (author)Short-haul flights are currently one of the most carbon-intensive modes of travel. Weight and fuel economy are closely linked. Therefore, weight reduction in the aviation industry is one of the critical factors in making commercial aviation more sustainable. This project focuses on aircraft efficiency by developing a lightweight aircraft seat...master thesis 2021
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Martini Jimenez, Daniel (author)Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is emerging in the airline industry as a revolutionary concept that could potentially increase the efficiency of aircraft operations. The adoption of CBM strategies is not yet widespread due to the stringent requirements imposed by aviation authorities and the fact that the prognostic and health management (PHM)...master thesis 2021
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Koch, Dave (author)This paper proposes a socio-technical agent-based model developed to increase the understanding of decision-making in an airline operational control center (AOCC). In this model human decision-makers, a Decision Support Tool, and technical systems are included. The selected case study encompasses the<br/>unexpected diversion of a flight from...master thesis 2021
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Geursen, Izaak (author)Current state-of-the-art airline planning models are required to decrease models either in size or complexity due to computational limitations, limiting the <br/>operational applicability to problems of representative sizes. Models return suboptimal solutions, especially when confronted with factors of uncertainty. Considering the growing...master thesis 2021
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Vink, P. (author), Anjani, S. (author), Netten, M.P. (author), de Ree, H. (author), de Haan, A (author), Song, Y. (author)Discomfort was recorded by 26 airline pilots during flight. Thirteen reported their discomfort during a long haul flight and 13 completed the questionnaires during short haul flights. Discomfort values increased with time to high values, but with a modest decrease towards the end of the flight. Most discomfort was reported in the low back area....conference paper 2021
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Hassan, L. K. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author), Vink, J. (author)Airline disruption management is an active field of research. In recent years, there has been an increase in publications, in particular, in of works integrating two or more resources (i.e., aircraft, crew, passengers) in the recovery analysis. Given that more than 50% of the papers have been published after the last literature review paper ...review 2021