Overview of OR techniques for airline revenue management

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 479-495

  Pak, Kevin ^a   Piersma, Nanda ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

OR techniques; Revenue management; Seat inventory control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036872712     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9574.00213     Document Type: Review

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