Gu, Jingyao; Zhang, Guoqing; Li, Kevin W. - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 42 (2015) C, pp. 101-109
In airline industries, the aircraft maintenance cost takes up about 13% of the total operating cost. It can be reduced by a good planning. Spare parts inventories exist to serve the maintenance planning. Compared with commonly used reorder point system (ROP) and forecasting methods which only...