Endüstri Mühendisliği Seminerler Serisi - Zeliha Akça

Title: Optimal Schedule For New Flights Based On Passenger Choice And Transfer Passenger

Abstract: Flight schedule design is an important phase in airline planning process. This talk presents a methodology to determine an optimal flight schedule for a given set of new flights that would maximize potential revenue. The model maximizes revenue defined considering transfer passengers and passenger choice data depending on arrival and departure times of flights. The methodology is tested using real data of Turkish Airlines and aims to find arrival and departure times of new flights with respect to available resources. Solutions establish directives for restructuring the current flight schedule. Sensitivity of the solution is evaluated considering changing constraints and strategic objectives.

Bio: Zeliha Akça is a senior industrial engineer at Turkish Airlines and responsible for doing strategic analyses, market and competitor research and performance evaluation. After she got her Ph.D. from Lehigh University on application of large scale optimization algorithms on integrated location, routing and scheduling problems, she started working at Turkish Airlines in 2010. Since then, she has been building her experiences on strategic management and operations research applications in airline business. She holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from METU and a M.S. degree in Management Science from Lehigh University.