O.R. Applications in the Aviation Sector
Earlier faculty associates in research in this were Prof T.P.Bagchi, Prof Jayendran Venkateswaran, Prof N.Hemachandra and Prof A. Subramanayam in the areas below.
- Relationship of airline operating strategies and airport constraints, including a broad based research project with National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore on the issue of sizing, selection and impact of passenger/freight aircraft capacity on the aviation service network in India, with Ranjan Das, Dr Satish Chandra and Dr Kota Harinarayana.
- Crew planning, including the positioning of crew at different bases on the service network to minimize costs of deployment of crew for a given schedule.
- Airline cargo revenue management