Airline operations and delay management: Insights from airline economics, networks and strategic schedule planning

Airline Operations and Delay Management: Insights from Airline Economics, Networks and Strategic Schedule Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-241

  Wu, Cheng Lung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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