• Relaxing the boundaries between the successive stages of aircraft and crew schedule planning, so that schedule design, fleet assignment, aircraft maintenance routing, and crew scheduling might eventually be performed in an integrated way, rather than solved sequentially as interrelated, but distinct subproblems.
• Including pricing decisions in revenue management, instead of treating fares and fare classes as fixed, externally specified inputs.
• Developing fast decision support tools that increase the safety and efficiency of air transport operations by taking advantage of the massive, real-time data flows in an increasingly “info-centric” aviation infrastructure