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Air Canada Saves with Aircraft Maintenance Scheduling

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  • N. J. Boere

    (Operational Research Designer, Air Canada)

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The planning of aircraft maintenance by Air Canada had become increasingly difficult in the early 1970's. It sometimes required several weeks for planning personnel to manually develop an acceptable aircraft schedule. The lack of an accurate and timely maintenance scheduling tool led to the development of the Aircraft Maintenance Operations Simulation (AMOS) model. Two years after its introduction, Air Canada has so improved the flying hours achieved between maintenance checks that a 5% reduction in the labour and material costs associated with the maintenance of aircraft has resulted. A letter of verification of this reduction may be found at the end of this article.

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  • N. J. Boere, 1977. "Air Canada Saves with Aircraft Maintenance Scheduling," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 7(3), pages 1-13, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:7:y:1977:i:3:p:1-13
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.7.3.1
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    1. Safaei, Nima & Jardine, Andrew K.S., 2018. "Aircraft routing with generalized maintenance constraints," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 111-122.
    2. Nima Safaei & Dragan Banjevic & Andrew Jardine, 2011. "Workforce-constrained maintenance scheduling for military aircraft fleet: a case study," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 186(1), pages 295-316, June.
    3. Deng, Qichen & Santos, Bruno F. & Curran, Richard, 2020. "A practical dynamic programming based methodology for aircraft maintenance check scheduling optimization," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 281(2), pages 256-273.
    4. Deng, Qichen & Santos, Bruno F., 2022. "Lookahead approximate dynamic programming for stochastic aircraft maintenance check scheduling optimization," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 299(3), pages 814-833.
    5. Sciau, Jean-Baptiste & Goyon, Agathe & Sarazin, Alexandre & Bascans, Jérémy & Prud’homme, Charles & Lorca, Xavier, 2024. "Using constraint programming to address the operational aircraft line maintenance scheduling problem," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).

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