15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
OPTIMAL CONTROL OF AIRLINE BOOKING PROCESS
Nicholas A. Nechval, Konstantin N. Nechval & Edgars K. Vasermanis
Applied Mathematics Department, University of Latvia
Raina Blvd 19, LV-1050 Riga, Latvia
fax: +371 7100660, e-mail: nechval@junik.lv

This paper deals with the problem of optimization of airline booking levels for flights with several classes of passenger service and the scientific determination of reservation policies. The dynamic and static models of airline data for determining optimal reservation policies for airline booking process are presented. These models make it possible to maximize the unconditional expected gain of the flight or to minimize the unconditional expected value of loss and penalty. The numerical examples are given.
Keywords: Aircraft, transportation, data, model-based control, optimization
Session slot T-Mo-A18: Transportation Systems/Area code 8e : Transportation Systems