AGIFORS Revenue Management 2004
Conference Agenda

Sunday – March 28

TBD Optional Sightseeing Tour
15:00 – 18:00

Delegate Registration

18:00 – 20:00

Conference Opening Ceremony

Welcome Cocktail Party 

Begins with a beautiful Maori welcome followed by drinks and food. 

Sponsored by Air New Zealand & Heritage Hotel Auckland

Monday – March 29

 

08:00 – 17:00 Delegate Registration

08:00 – 08:15

Conference Welcome

Norm Thompson, 

Group General Manager 

Marketing, Network and Sales

Air New Zealand

 

08:15 – 09:15

Conference Overview & Airline Updates

09:15 – 09:30

Coffee break

09:30 – 10:15

On the Choice-Based LP Model for Network RM

Garrett van Ryzin - Columbia University

10:15 – 11:15

Flexible and Callable Revenue Management

Guillermo Gallego, Garudy Iyengar, and Steven Kou - Columbia University

Robert Phillips – Stanford University

 

11:15 – 12:00

Predicting air travelers' no show and standby behavior using passenger and directional itinerary information

Laurie Garrow and Frank S. Koppelman - Northwestern University

 

12:00 – 13:30

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:30 – 14:15

Event-Driven Revenue Management

Scott Chandler, Shau-Shiang Ja, and Tim Jacobs - American Airlines  

 

14:15 – 15:00

Revenue Integrity

Mary Kay Caschetta - Northwest Airlines

 

15:00– 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15

Delta's experience on O&D RM

Brian Wishlinski - Delta

 

16:15 - 16:45

Is there value in Fare mapping

Jean-Francois Page – Air Canada

 
16:45 - 17:15

Vendor Presentations

Balancing long-term passenger value and operational costs in airline operations

Bo Vaaben - Carmen Systems

 
18.30 – 22:00

Evening Networking Activity 

Sponsored by Sabre Airlines Solutions   

Cocktail Hour sponsored by Sabre Airline Solutions

Tuesday – March 30

 

08:00 – 17:00 Delegate Registration
08:00 – 08:45

Models of the Spiral Down Phenomenon

Anton Kleywegt – Georgia Tech

Tito Homem de Mello - Northwestern University

William Cooper - University of Minnesota  

 

08:45 – 09:30

Managing Revenue in Broken Fare Fence Environment

Krishnan Saranathan and Burak Ozdaryal – United Airlines  

09:30 – 09:45

Coffee break

09:45 – 10:30

Revenue Management Performance In a Low-Fare Airline Environment

Thomas Gorin and Peter Belobaba - MIT International Center for Air Transportation

10:30 – 11:15

Algorithms For Revenue Management In Unrestricted Fare Markets

Craig Hopperstad - Hopperstad Consulting

Peter Belobaba - MIT International Center for Air Transportation

 

11:15 – 12:00

Competitive Fare Shopping for YM

Richard Ratliff - Sabre Holdings

 

12:00 – 13:30

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:30 – 14:15

Changes in Passenger Purchasing Behavior and Their Impact on Revenue Management Models

E. Andrew Boyd, Royce Kallesen, and Ed Kambour - PROS Revenue Management

 

14:15 – 15:00:

Forecasting Demand Using Competitive Fare Information

Dr. John Salch, Ed Kambour, and Royce Kallesen - PROS Revenue Management

 

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee break

 

15:15 – 15:45

Optimal Airline Seat Allocation in a Fenceless Environment using Expected Revenue Maximization (ERM)

Hossein Tavana - Continental Airlines

 

15:45 – 16:30

Optimisation Issues in Low Cost Revenue Management

Klaus Weber, Ruediger Thiel - Lufthansa Systems

 

16:30 – 17:15

Competitive Intelligence based Revenue Management in a Restriction-Free Pricing environment

Anand Srinivasan, Sachin Bhatevara & Shankar Mishra – Sabre Airline Solutions  

 

18.30 – 19:30

Evening Networking Activity

Sponsored by PROS Revenue Management

The evening begins with a ferry ride to Devonport followed by dinner at On Bourbon Street restaurant.


Wednesday–
March 30

 

08:00 – 17:00 Delegate Registration

08:00 – 08:45

Online Low Price Guarantees - A Real Options Analysis

Chris K. Anderson - University of Western Ontario

 

08:45 – 09:30

To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price

Rattapoom Tuchinda - University of Southern California

 

09:30 – 09:45

Coffee break

 

09:45 – 10:30

A Dynamic Model for Airline Network Revenue Management

Eylem Tekin and Tao Huang – University of North Carolina

 

10:30 – 11:15

The Theory and Practice of Dynamic-Programming Based Bid Prices

Larry Weatherford and Aleksey Khokhlov- University of Wyoming

 

11:15 – 12:00

A New Approach to O&D Revenue Management Based on Scenario Trees

A. Moeller+, W. Roemisch+ and K. Weber* (+ Humboldt-University Berlin, * Lufthansa Systems)

 

12:00 – 13:30

Business Lunch in the Hotel

13:30 – 14:15

Using Expected Maximum Utility to Calculate the Network Value Index for Airline Network Enhancements

Roger A Parker and Richard Lonsdale - Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Marketing

 

14:15 – 15:00

Tour Operator vs. Airline: Impact on Revenue Management Techniques

Ulrich Oppitz - Thomas Cook

 

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee break

 

15:15 – 16:00

Implementing RM in firms with a diffuse ownership structure: the case of ACCOR.

Jean Michel CHAPUIS, Mathieu PAQUEROT - University of La Rochelle

 
16:00 – 16:30

Conference Closing and Award Presentation

Business Meeting, 2005 Host Airline

* Agenda is subject to change

** A selection of presentations covering all aspects of Revenue Management including Yield Management and  Reservation Systems.

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

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