Domestic flight timetabling to increase connecting passenger

Abstract

In the air transportation market, the competition has been increasingly intense throughout the period in term of price, service quality and route variety. In order to create the competitive advantage, the strategy is the core competency that use to build the appropriate operation planning for the future development.

The case studied airline is the subsidiary of the Thai airline, and the objective is to increase connecting passenger from the main airline. Therefore, the appropriate flight timetabling is necessary to effectively and efficiently serve passengers’ desires. This project is developed to generate the corresponding flight timetable to the business strategy by using the Wave-System Structure and heuristic approach; Branch-and-Bound, Greedy Algorithm, which help in the decision-making process. Moreover, Holt-Winter’s model are also used to forecast market demand base on the historical passenger demand’s behaviour.

From the result of project, the new flight timetabling development has increased the connecting passenger by 46.67% and also increase the variety of connecting destination as well. The benefit of the new flight timetabling would positively affect the aircraft utilisation.