• 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