ABSTRACT
Airline management invests all of its effort to develop profitable schedules that are satisfactorily competitive in the different markets. In the US, flights that are scheduled to arrive at airports with adverse weather conditions are issued what is known as a Ground Delay Program (GDP). The GDP is a key tool to balance and meter the flight arrivals by all air carriers and the capacity at airports experiencing a significant reduction in capacity mainly due to adverse weather conditions. To overcome the disincentives that preclude the air carriers from reporting their latest updated schedule in the US, a new paradigm is developed called the Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) paradigm. Indeed, air carriers find there are disincentives for sharing their updated schedule information with the aviation administration. Compression is a rule-based mechanism that is used to fill in landing slots that are not used by air carriers due to flight cancellation.
