In order to carry out their program of commercial flights at the lowest economic cost, the airline companies do their utmost to reduce the number of required planes. However, when the traffic is divided between several major airports, it is no longer sufficient to solve separate sub-problems for each of them. Only a complete description permitting the transfer of empty planes between these airports (called in French 'convoyages') allows improvement in the use of the air-fleet. The paper presents a theoretical pattern for this problem in terms of an oriented network in which is run an optimal flow using Fulkerson's 'Out of Kilter' algorithm. The method was programmed on a computer and it was successfully used to solve a full size problem for Air France.
Improvement of the utilisation of an aerial fleet shared between two major airports. Generation of 'convoyages'
Die Verbesserung des Einsatzes einer Luftflotte zwischen zwei grossen Flugplaetzen
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Rairo Informatique/Computer Science ; 9 , V-3 ; 57-68
1975
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