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Logistics of Airline Companies, 6 ECTS credits.
/Flygbolagets logistik/
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FT
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The course is not available for exchange students
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 34
Rec. self-study hours: 126
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Area of Education: Technology
Main field of studies: Logistics
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G2
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Aim:
After the course, the participants should be able to:
- account for the factors that affect the passengers choice of travel
- model demand for airline services
- construct models to optimize the resource management for airlines
- account for methods to utlize the aircraft capacity
- calulate the number of seats to reserve for full fare passengers
- calculate the overbooking point
- give examples on how information sharing may lead to increased efficiency
- account for the consequences of perturbations for an airline, and the actions used to mimimize these consequences
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic knowledge in air traffic, economy, logistics and optimization
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The course consists of lectures and seminars. The lectures give the theoretical background. During the seminars, assignments and case studies are discussed.
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Course contents:
- demand modelling and forecasting
- resource management
- revenue management
- perturbation management
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Course literature:
Modeling Applications in the Airline Industry av Abdelghany & Abdelghany
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Hand-in assignment
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3 ECTS
3 ECTS
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Course language is English.
Department offering the course: ITN.
Director of Studies: Erik Bergfeldt
Examiner: Valentin Polishchuk
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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