overview of OR techniques for airline revenue management

With the increasing interest in decision support systems and the continuous advance of computer science, revenue management is a discipline which has received a great deal of interest in recent years. Although revenue management has seen many new applications throughout the years, the main focus of research continues to be the airline industry. Ever since LITTLEWOOD (1972) first proposed a solution method for the airline revenue management problem, a variety of solution methods have been introduced. In this paper we give an overview of the solution methods presented throughout the literature.     

Greening the airline pilot: HRM and the green performance of airlines in the UK

This paper investigates the potential for human resource management (HRM) to influence the green performance of airlines. The focus is on the management of airline pilots, in particular, who have unparalleled opportunities to affect green performance through their control of the machines that directly impact the industry's carbon footprint. As a result it is vital that the HR function finds ways to engage them in the greening of the organization and works to reduce the triggers to actions that have the potential to sabotage the green aims of the airline industry. To this end, the paper discusses first the indirect effects of HRM in terms of its influence on employee job satisfaction, commitment and involvement in the airline, which can reduce the propensity of pilots to engage in actions detrimental to the green performance of the airline. Second, it explores the nature and purpose of direct green HRM initiatives and airline pilot responses to these. It concludes that the role HR managers can play via their management of the employment relationship on the green performance of airlines in the UK is crucial but that they face considerable challenges.     

Global Airline Networks: Comparative Nodal Access Measures

One strategy for making sense of airline network complexity is to assess the empirical network against an appropriate benchmark. The purpose of this paper is to develop and use well known measurements of betweenness and to deploy them in the context of airline transportation nets. The paper demonstrates some structural differences that emerge in larger networks. Selected extreme values are computed, as benchmarks, from a hypothetical ideal hub network. Actual values are shown to largely comport with these expectations, but there are numerous and interesting exceptions.     

航空快递的经营特性与管理战略

在阐述我国近年来航空快递市场发展状况与趋势的基础上，分析了航空快递业务管理的三大特性：服务管理特性、物流管理特性与网络管理特性．指出航空快递业务网络是企业客户网络、航线网络、地面网络、信息网络、资金网络等共同构成的统一体，最后论述了航空快递企业的管理战略；     

我国国内航空货运航线网络结构的实证分析

为了全面分析我国航空货运航线网络结构的现状,准确把握航空货运航线网络结构中存在的问题,本文运用统计分析和网络拓扑分析的方法,对我国国内航空货运样本航段的运量进行分析,计算结果显示:我国航空货运枢纽与客运枢纽具有高度叠加性,货运枢纽较客运枢纽更为显著;我国航空货运航线网络中的机场层次更加丰富;2007年航线网络的便利性较2002年有所提高;目前我国国内航空货运航线网络仍以城市对式航线网络结构为主,但也存在不均衡发展、多结构共存的现象。     

新形势下高校网络文化建设与管理工作探析

充分利用和有效管理校园网络,致力提升校园文化品位,是新形势下加强高校网络文化建设和管理工作的艰巨任务。本文分析了高校网络文化的特点及存在的问题,提出了高校网络文化的建设和管理工作的解决策略。     

航空公司安全管理体系(SMS)建设方法研究

安全管理体系(SMS)是降低航空运营过程中安全风险的主要措施和保证,SMS建设也在我国各航空公司逐步展开。文章借鉴民航空管系统SMS建设经验,结合我国航空公司运营特点,从安全文化建设、安全管理实施方法、安全监察机制建设三方面对我国航空公司安全体系建设方法提出了建议。     

Strategic Alliances in the Aviation Industry: An Analysis of Turkish Airlines Experience

SUMMARY

This paper investigates antecedents of success/failure in strategic alliances, which is implemented by airline companies as a response to globalization and liberal government policies. The relationship between Turkish Airlines and Qualiflyer Group, the largest airline alliance in Europe until its collapse in 2001, has been taken as a case study to present the question in terms of matching the goals, partner selection, alliance management, and areas of cooperation. Two factors at the macro-level and four factors at the micro-level are found to be important to succeed in strategic airline alliances.     

Advanced manufacturing systems: supply–demand matching of manufacturing resource based on complex networks and Internet of Things

ABSTRACT

After investigation on the existing advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs), it is found that supply–demand matching of manufacturing resource is one of the common issues to be addressed in all AMSs, and methods for addressing this issue have evolved from P2P (peer-to-peer)-based, to information centre-based, and to platform (or system)-based matching, and are moving towards socialisation and service-based solutions. In order to adapt to this trend, a new method for manufacturing resource supply–demand matching based on complex networks and Internet of Things (IoT) is proposed, and a four-layered architecture for implementing this method is designed. In this method, IoT technology is employed to realise the intelligent perception and accessing of various manufacturing resources and capabilities (MR&C), which enables logical aggregation of various distributed MR&C in the form of services. Then complex networks model and theory are used to realise the efficient manufacturing service management, optimal-allocation, and supply–demand matching. In this article, the specific key technologies for implementing the method are presented, including key technologies for manufacturing service generation and aggregation, manufacturing demand/task management, supply–demand matching of MR&C in the form of services, and value/utility adding based on manufacturing service network (MSN), manufacturing task network (MTN) and manufacturing enterprises collaborative network (ECN).     

基于组合预测模型的航空货运吞吐量预测研究

目前对于机场货运吞吐量的预测方法不尽合理,导致预测与实际情况差别较大,为此本文提出将内在影响因素融入组合预测模型,从而对航空货物运输进行预测,使得预测结果更加接近实际情况.本文以香港国际机场为背景,运用Shapley值法将BP神经网络和灰色理论预测模型进行组合,对其航空货运吞吐量进行了实证研究,并将此预测方法推广应用于其他机场的预测.     

A dynamic oligopoly game of the US airline industry: Estimation and policy experiments

This paper studies the contribution of demand, costs, and strategic factors to the adoption of hub-and-spoke networks in the US airline industry. Our results are based on the estimation of a dynamic game of network competition using data from the Airline Origin and Destination Survey with information on quantities, prices, and entry and exit decisions for every airline company in the routes between the 55 largest US cities. As methodological contributions of the paper, we propose and apply a method to reduce the dimension of the state space in dynamic games, and a procedure to deal with the problem of multiple equilibria when implementing counterfactual experiments. Our empirical results show that the most important factor to explain the adoption of hub-and-spoke networks is that the sunk cost of entry in a route declines importantly with the number of cities that the airline connects from the origin and destination airports of the route. For some carriers, the entry deterrence motive is the second most important factor to explain hub-and-spoke networks.     

航空公司运营效率研究综述

航空公司运营效率是一个涉及多学科、多层面、多因素的复杂问题。在对国内外近30年以来的70篇文献研究的基础上,梳理了航空公司运营效率概念的形成与发展,并对航空公司运营效率的研究方法进行了整理及归类,最后,分别就国外研究现状和国内研究现状进行了综述和分析。     

基于AHP与灰色关联分析法的航空发动机维修供应商评价与选择研究

航空公司通常将飞机发动机维修业务外包给专业维修供应商。合理的评价和选择维修供应商可以控制维修质量,提高飞机的安全性与可靠性。建立一套航空发动机维修供应商评价指标体系,利用(AHP)层次分析法确定指标权重,并建立了基于层次分析法和灰色关联分析法的维修供应商选择评价模型。     

高职院校信息管理系统网络化的探讨

在信息管理系统中利用计算机和网络技术,来解决高职学院员工作中的实际问题以及学生对信息的查询,高职学院引入信息网络是跟世界网络接轨的首要任务,也是教育者把信息技术和教育相结合培养现代人才的重要问题。     

Toward a structural view of co-opetition in supply networks

Co-opetition, or simultaneous competition and cooperation, in the supply chain management literature has been treated as a dyadic relational phenomenon where the buyer's strategy is considered to be the primary driver. In this paper, we move beyond the dyadic view and propose a theory of co-opetition in supply networks. We argue that as firms within a supply network interact over time to access, share, and transform resources, new ties between firms are formed and existing ties dissolve, giving rise to co-opetition dynamics at the network level. Taking a configurational approach, we employ the inter-related dimensions of ties between firm, firm-level task, network-level objective, and governance to specify four practical supply network archetypes that cover a wide range of economic activities. We then explain how coopetitive relationships may evolve in these supply network archetypes. Specifically, we discuss how relationships form or dissolve in these archetypes and how local structural changes lead to co-opetition dynamics at the network level. We also discuss the implications of such dynamics from a managerial perspective.     

Risk-based classification of supplier relationships

The management and exploitation of external resources has increased and become a new source of business success. This has given rise to various new risks and therefore increased the need for collaborative risk management and learning. The objective of this paper is to explore the differences in risk management and learning across supplier relationships classified through network risks. The paper provides a theoretical review of supplier relationships and risk management, as well as a survey-based empirical study conducted in one case company's supply network. A set of network risks and risk-management measures is developed by means of factor analysis, and a supplier classification by means of cluster analysis. According to the results, the exploitation of collaborative risk management and learning is highest among the most strategic supplier relationships. A classification typology based on suppliers’ opinions helps both parties in the relationship and enables the efficient exploitation of mutual risk management with collaborative learning as one of its keystones.     

Internalization of congestion at US hub airports

I study delays and congestion patterns in US hub airports during periods of high flight volume. I find that these periods are longer when the share of flights operated by the hub airline is greater, and these longer periods exhibit shorter delays. These results lend support to recent theoretical work on congestion, implying that hub-airlines take into account the impact of their scheduling decisions on the congestion that they bear. The results may suggest that congestion management solutions implemented at hub airports dominated by one airline could have only a limited impact on congestion in general.     

航空积分联盟及其对联盟合作伙伴的影响研究——基于南航加入天合联盟的案例研究

积分联盟作为重要的关系营销手段逐渐成为营销领域的热点,但如何在多赢的基础上强化其预期作用是企业决定是否加入积分联盟和如何选择盟主企业的关键问题。针对国内航空公司相继加入国际航空联盟的事实,本文选择南航加入天合联盟为例,采用单案例研究方法,包括实地访谈和二手资料的收集,最后得出：（1）中国航空公司加入航空联盟的动因是航空...     

谁杀死了民营航空?

谁能想到，三年多前，以风风光光的首航拉开民营航空集体登场大幕的奥凯，今日会成为一出停航悲剧的主角？     

浅析校本教研和网络教研下的教师发展模式

校本教研对于教师专业的成长起着极为重要的推动作用,然而,传统的校本教研模式是一种面对面的模式,这就意味着要花费很多的时间和精力,这对于教师自身的发展是很不利的。令人欣喜的是,在计算机网络的普及和新课程改革的实验"双喜临门"的大好局势下,教育网络已经正在建立和完善的过程当中,随之而来的是一个新名词——网络教研。网络教研的出现,使教师就得更为自由且更具效率,它减轻了教师的任务,并且它为校本教研提供了交互平台以及快捷和丰富的资源等。