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The Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem

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  • Ram Gopalan

    (American Express Travel Related Services, New York, New York)

  • Kalyan T. Talluri

    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract

Federal aviation regulations require that all aircraft undergo maintenance after flying a certain number of hours. To ensure high aircraft utilization, maintenance is done at night, and these regulations translate into requiring aircraft to overnight at a maintenance station every three to four days (depending on the fleet type), and to visit a balance-check station periodically. After the schedule is fleeted, the aircraft are routed to satisfy these maintenance requirements. We give fast and simple polynomial-time algorithms for finding a routing of aircraft in a graph whose routings during the day are fixed, that satisfies both the three-day maintenance as well as the balance-check visit requirements under two different models: a static infinite-horizon model and a dynamic finite-horizon model. We discuss an implementation where we embed the static infinite-horizon model into a three-stage procedure for finding a maintenance routing of aircraft.

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  • Ram Gopalan & Kalyan T. Talluri, 1998. "The Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 46(2), pages 260-271, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:46:y:1998:i:2:p:260-271
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.2.260
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