AGIFORS Airline Operations 2008
Optimizing the Schedule Life Cycle

 

Conference Agenda

   
Sunday - 18 May 2008  
15:00 - 18:00 Delegate Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception at the Mövenpick Hotel
Sponsored by AGIFORS
Monday - 19 May 2008  
07:00 - 08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:00 - 08:30 Conference Overview
Michael Clarke and Tim Niznik, AGIFORS
08:30 - 09:00 Overview of AGIFORS
Michael Clarke, President
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote: KLM VP Operational Plan Management
Ryanne van der Eijk - Air France-KLM
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Simulating the Stability of Flight Schedules
by the use of a Capacity Model
Birgit Klempert, Florian Wikenhauser – Lufthansa Airlines
11:15 - 12:00

Maintenance Reachability: Robust Schedule and Route Construction at SWA
Alex Heinold - Southwest Airlines

12:00 - 13:15 Business luncheon
Sponsored by Jeppesen
13:15 - 13:30 Lufthansa Systems
Vendor Presentation
13:30 - 13:45 INFORM GmbH
Vendor Presentation
13:45 - 14:00 Jeppesen
Vendor Presentation
14:00 - 14:15 IBS
Vendor Presentation
14:15 - 14:30 Sabre Airline Solutions
Vendor Presentation
14:30 - 15:00 After tea break
15:00 - 15:15 m2p Consulting
Vendor Presentation
15:15 - 15:30

Boeing Operational Performance Services
Vendor Presentation

15:30 - 15:45 Amadeus
Vendor Presentation
15:45 - 16:00 Disruption Management Competition
Special Presentation
16:00 - 17:00 Vendor Exhibition
18:00 - 22:00 Dinner at St. Olof Chapel
Sponsored by AGIFORS
Tuesday - 20 May 2008  
07:00 - 08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:00 - 08:15 Navitaire
Vendor Presentation
08:15 - 09:15 Keynote: The New Dutch Railway Timetable
2008 INFORMS Edelman Award Winner
Leo Kroon
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
09:15 - 10:00 Flight Operations Health Check
David Ploog - m2p Consulting
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Improving Operational Performance Without
Increasing Planned Costs
Marcial Lapp, Amy Cohn, S. Ahmad-Beygi – University of Michigan
11:15 - 12:00 Virtual Spares
John-Paul Clarke – Georgia Institute of Technology
12:00 - 13:15 Business luncheon
13:15 - 14:00 Simulating Flight Delays in Airport Ground Staff Scheduling
Joerg Herbers – Inform GmbH
14:00 - 14:45 The Potential of Tail Assignment Optimization
Thomas Schickinger – Lufthansa Systems
14:45 - 15:00 After tea break
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion: Linking Planning and Operational Performance
Facilitated by Amy Cohn, Tim Niznik, and Michael Clarke
16:00 - 17:00 Vendor Exhibition
18:00 - 22:00 Evening Dinner Outing
On your own
Wednesday - 21 May 2008
07:00 - 08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:00 - 08:15 LAN Airlines (Airline Update)
Miguel Martínez Madrigal
08:15 - 08:30 Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Airline Update)
Jack Bruner
08:30 - 09:15 Trends in Flight Operations. Future HCC vs. OCC
David Ploog - m2p Consulting
09:15 - 10:00 Airline Operations Control Modeling
Goran Stojkovic – Jeppesen
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Airbus A-380 Aircraft Boarding Strategies A Simulation Study
Massoud Bazargan – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
11:15 - 12:00 A Well Oiled Engine with ESCapE
Charlotte Elpers – Air France-KLM
12:00 - 13:15 Business luncheon
13:15 - 14:00 A Simulation Study to AirTran Airways Super Tug Operations
Massoud Bazargan – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
14:00 - 14:45 Multiobjective Gate Assignment Problem
Sergey Shebalov – Sabre Holdings
14:45 - 15:00 After tea break
15:00 - 17:00 Vendor Exhibition
18:00 - 22:00 Dinner Cruise on the Amstel River
Sponsored by Sabre Airline Solutions
Thursday - 22 May 2008
07:00 - 08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00 Airline Update
15 minute time slots (4 left)
09:00 - 09:15 Air France-KLM (Airline Update)
Stefan Troost
09:15 - 10:00 Optimizing Composition of Flights in Peak Hours at Hubs
Jan Veldhuis, Guillaume Burghouwt – University of Amsterdam
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Integrated Gate and Bus Assignment at Amsterdam Schiphol
Marjan van den Akker - Utrecht University
11:15 - 12:00 Fairness in the Aircraft Landing Problem
Maarten Soomer, G.M. Koole – VU University Amsterdam
12:00 - 13:30 Business luncheon
13:30 - 15:00 Annual Business Meeting/Closing Ceremony
15:00 - 15:30 After tea break
 
 
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