Aviation delays inconvenience travelers and result in financial losses for stakeholders. Without complex data pre-processing, delay data collected by the existing IATA delay coding system are inadequate to support advanced delay analytics, e.g. large-scale delay propagation tracing in an airline...

A sequential optimisation algorithm is developed to improve the operational reliability of airline schedules. Simulation results show that departure delays are reduced by 30% after optimisation by using extra 260 min buffer times in the schedule. This also increases the network-wide schedule...