ABSTRACT

The main objective of the air carrier schedule recovery during irregular operations conditions is to find an efficient cost-effective plan to alleviate the impact of the irregularities on the schedule. First, the plan should comply with any Ground Delay Program (GDP) issued at any airport or any air-space flow program issued to meter traffic in the space affected by adverse weather conditions. Second, this plan should also conform to regulations required for the aircraft service and maintenance activities. Most work on disruption management in the airlines focuses on resolving conflicts for a single resource at a time. Also, some work is reported on the integrated recovery models that focus one more than one resource. However, to peoples' knowledge, none of these integrated models is implemented by any major airline. One of the earliest literatures of the integrated recover models is the work of Lettovsky, which presents a framework for an integrated airline recovery.