Bruno F. Santos

Fleet planning under demand uncertainty: a reinforcement learning approach

  • Mathias de Koning
  • Bruno F. Santos
    • Categories Airline Optimization Tags , , ,

    This work proposes a model-free reinforcement learning approach to learn a long-term fleet planning problem subjected to air-travel demand uncertainty. The aim is to develop a dynamic fleet policy that adapts over time by intermediate assessments of the states. A Deep Q-network is trained to estimate the optimal fleet decisions based on the airline and … Read more

    Dynamic Design Of Reserve Crew Duties For Long Haul Airline Crew

  • Richard Janssen
  • Bruno F. Santos
  • Lennart Scherp
    • Categories Airline Optimization, Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Scheduling

    Airlines need crew to operate their flights. In case of crew unavailability, for example due to illness, the airline often uses reserve crew to still be able to operate the flight. In this paper, we apply a simulation-based optimization method to determine how much and on which days reserve crew needs to be scheduled. This … Read more