Fleet Planning Approach Based on Optimized Fleet Capacity Allocation in Airline Networks

The proposed approach was based on predicted statistics of airline transport production,and its optimization objective was to maximize the profit of airline companies.Fleet capacity allocation on each air route was optimized considering the technical and economic properties of each airplane type and traffic demand,flight frequency on each air route,and available flight time of airline flight crews.The optimal fleet composition was determined based on average utilization ratio of each fleet type.A simulation was made using LINGO software with input of 5 fleet types and 60 routes,and the result shows that the proposed approach is robust to the fluctuation of traffic demand of market.