Multiobjective airline scheduling: An integrated approach

Due to the cost and management issues, multiple objectives are often considered in the practical scheduling plans of airline companies. This paper studies a multiobjective evolutionary approach to solve the highly complex integrated airline scheduling problem which involves an optimization process assigning flight legs to both aircrafts and crews simultaneously under several real-world constraints. For verifying and validating the proposed method, real-world flight data is used to build up the study case. According to the experimental results, the proposed method can successfully explore the good solutions.