Operations Research Problems for Airline Industry: A Literature Survey for Maintenance Routing Problem

Network Models

To provide a visual overview of the problem, usually time-line networks, time-band networks or connection networks are used. These are the most widely used networking types for operations research studies in the area of airline planning. Clausen (2009) explained these most used network models. As an example, a flight plan established for Example Airlines is shown in Table 1. In this table, İstanbul(IST), Ankara(ANK), İzmir(IZM) and Antalya(ANT) have been connected together with specific flights and defined flight times. For Istanbul and Ankara airports, defined turn-around time is 60 minutes. For İzmir and Antalya, defined turn-around time is 30 minutes.