AGIFORS Airline Operations 2011
Effective Operations During Major Disruptions
London, England (UK)


Conference Proceedings

Keynote Address: 'Operational Disruption'
Andy Lord, British Airways
Winter Resilience Planning
Saroj Sodi, Raymond Hagerty – British Airways
Operational Implications of Expanded U.S. Passenger Protections
Josh Marks – Marks Aviation
Lessons Learned from Integrated Recovery
Jon Petersen - Georgia Institute of Technology
Collaborative Decision Making and its Impact on Airline Operations
Jeffery Oboy - Mostert, Ploog & Partners
How United provides outstanding customer service during major disruptions
Alison Soderberg - United Airlines
4D Airline Operations Control
Goran Stojkovic - Jeppesen
Modeling the airline costs of delay propagation
Andrew Cook - University of Westminster, London
Improving passenger service by extending disruption management with flight planning
Bo Vaaben - Technical University of Denmark

A Look at the State of Airline Fuel Conservation
Michael Irrgang - Boeing Commercial Aircraft 
Simulation Based Planning
Hakan Ergan - US Airways

The Triple Crown of Schedule Recovery
Baptiste Chatrain - Amadeus
Avoid recovery costs- real -time decision support for saving passenger transfer connections!
Michael Muzik - Lufthansa Systems AG

The Drivers behind on-time departure performance at Kenya Airways
Boris Schellekens – Kenya Airways/TU-Delft

Creating the World’s Largest Operations
Julian Pachon - United Airlines

Aircraft Replacement Strategy
Massoud Bazargan - Embry – Riddle Aeronautical University
Robust Scheduling through Optimized Tail Assignment
David Karlberg - Jeppesen

Delay Cost Modeling and Management
Gesine Varfis - Lufthansa Consulting
Increasing Stability and Flexibility of Airline Crew Schedules
Lucian Ionescu - Freie Universität Berlin

Short-Term Airline Maintenance Planning & Recovery
Marcial Lapp - University of Michigan
Terminal five departure concourse modeling
Andrew Beck – British Airways
Integrated Airline Scheduling Using Metaheuristic Optimization
Tobias Grosche - airconomy aviation intelligence
A Decomposition Technique for Itinerary Based Airline Fleet Assignment
Bala Srinivasan –- United Airlines
 

Conference Awards

Best Innovation
Robust Scheduling through Optimized Tail Assignment
David Karlberg - Jeppesen
Best Presentation
How United provides outstanding customer service during major disruptions
Alison Soderberg - United Airlines

Please refer to previous years conference proceedings for a complete listing of technical talks given in the past at AGIFORS Airline Operations meetings.

About AGIFORS

The Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (AGIFORS) is a society with the avowed purpose of forwarding the practice of Operational Research in airlines. The membership consists of Operational Research workers who are also employed by recognized civil airlines. There are, in addition, correspondents who are people keenly interested in the application of Operational Research to aviation problems.