Airline Operations And Scheduling [Hardcover]

Massoud Bazargan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 075463616X | ISBN-13: 978-0754636168 | Publication Date: September 30, 2004

Aviation; This book is the result of developing an MBA course on Airline Planning and Operations at the College of Business at Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University. The course was initiated based on feedback received from alumni, mainly working at airlines, as well as students undertaking the author's operations research and operations management classes. The feedback indicated that a follow-up course to these courses specifically focused towards airline scheduling based on optimization methodologies would be very appealing to them, and the aviation audience. The idea of developing such a course was additionally encouraged by the College's airline industry advisers. The development of the course was long and time consuming. The reason was that due to its unique nature, there were limited suitable texts; and related materials are very technical, thus, beyond the scope of an MBA class. This course was developed and offered in Spring 2002. The students undertaking this course motivated the author to write a text focused at the materials in this course. This book attempts to achieve a number of goals as follows: Introduce the importance and complexity of planning and operations at th

Editorial Reviews

Review

"…an excellent introduction to airline operations that covers the entire field of topics. I highly recommend this book." -- Darryl Jenkins, Airline Consultant, USA

About the Author

Massoud Bazargan is Associate Professor, Production/Operations Management & Operations Research at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Manufacturing/Business Consultant. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Operations Research at the University of Western Sydney, School of Science & Technology, Australia and Research Fellow/ Assistant Professor, Industrial Technology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was also Founder and Chairman of an operations research & industrial engineering consulting firm in Iran. He has published in leading operations research, operations management and simulation journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include transportation, scheduling, man-power planning, supply chain management, cellular manufacturing, safety and simulation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 205 pages
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd (September 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075463616X
• ISBN-13: 978-0754636168
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,484,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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