Air travel distribution is concerned with all tasks and processes surrounding the sale of airline seats to travelers. Today, international air travel distribution is a US $500 billion per year industry around a complex network of suppliers, travelers and intermediaries; industry passenger sales are growing at over 7% per year (IATA 2008). On a business level, airlines try to identify those paths in the network that give them the lowest cost access to the highest yielding customer base. On the other hand, customers try to identify the paths that allow them to purchase the air travel products (i.e. the airline seat and other related sales such as in-flight shopping) that best meet their needs at the lowest prices. Operations research models are used in many phases of the air travel process to optimize distribution decisions for airlines, customers and other air travel intermediaries.
Airline Distribution
Int.Ser.Operations Res.
2011-12-21
74 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Revenue Management , Travel Agency , Most Favored Nation , Ticket Sale , Aggregate Network Business and Management , Organization , Regional/Spatial Science , Operations Research/Decision Theory , Industrial Organization , Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing , Civil Engineering
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