Schedule planning: (1) Integrating decisions involving schedule design and aircraft and crew routing
and scheduling; (2) expanding schedule planning
models to include pricing and revenue management
decisions; (3) assessing the systemwide cost and service impacts of paradigm shifts in airline scheduling,such as depeaking flight schedules by spreading out
aircraft arrival and departure banks; and (4) developing tools, such as the stochastic model and airline
operations simulator described in Rosenberger et al.
(2002), to evaluate airline plans and recovery policies
in a stochastic operating environment.