Managing Airlines: The Cost of Complexity

This paper is dedicated to the structure of airline networks as a sink of efficient airline operations. Parameters of complexity were derived and mirrored on level of service as well as efficiency parameters. Airlines usually considerers an operational overhead to predict the total flight operation cost. This parameter includes the expected cost for disruptions and delays. When an airline has to mobilize an aircraft in a base for recovering the service or for breaking an emergent dynamic, then it is running extra costs. The cost of managing complexity in the airline industry has a direct impact on profit and loss account. Therefore, this paper presents an integrated approach to evaluate this cost, based on padding and aircrafts dedicated to recover disruptions. Finally, some additional indicators are derived to evaluate reliability improvement as part of complex performance.

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Supplemental Notes:
- © 2016 César Trapote-Barreira et al. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Authors:
- Trapote-Barreira, César
- Deutschmann, Andreas
- Robusté, Francesc
Conference:
- XII Conference on Transport Engineering (CIT 2016)
- Location: Valencia , Spain
- Date: 2016-6-7 to 2016-6-9
Publication Date: 2016

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 297-304
Serial:
- Transportation Research Procedia
- Volume: 18
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2352-1465
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Airlines; Airport operations; Costs; Flight delays; Management and organization; Service disruption
Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

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Accession Number: 01627053
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Feb 27 2017 9:38AM