The impact of airline flight schedules on flight delays

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 423-440

  Deshpande, Vinayak ^a   Arikan, Mazhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight delays; Flight schedules; Forecasting; Newsvendor model

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT CONGESTION; AIRSPACE CONGESTION; COST RATIO; DOMESTIC FLIGHTS; EARLY ARRIVAL; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; FLIGHT DATA; FLIGHT DELAYS; FLIGHT SCHEDULES; FULL-SERVICE AIRLINES; HIGHER WEIGHT; HUB AND SPOKE NETWORKS; LATE ARRIVAL; LOW-COST CARRIERS; MARKET SHARE; NEWSVENDOR MODELS; ON-TIME PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; COMPETITION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY;

AIRPORT PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84864330952     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1120.0379     Document Type: Article

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