In this paper, we investigate optimization of an aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMRP), which is currently a hot research topic in the air transport industry. The optimization of AMRP can help airline companies improve their management capacity and operational efficiency. However, there...

The aviation industry faces many challenges. One of which is unprepared aircraft maintenance graduates taking licensure exams. Students preparing for CAAP licensure examination typically return to their undergraduate school to ask their technical instructors to train them for their incoming...

Aircraft financing is essential to promote economic growth and development and to help accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, aircraft financing is essential. Given the fact that for airlines and investors, the high costs of aircraft maintenance and acquisition...

More than 50% of airline aircraft in the world are leased. The article analyzes the global aviation leasing market, including the largest lessor companies. Companies from China are of particular interest. In addition, the positions of Russian companies are analyzed, both from the supply side and...

Establishing (e.g., perfecting) and enforcing a lien presents technical pitfalls and practical problems with which practitioners and courts are often unfamiliar or uncomfortable. After all, the law of liens requires an understanding of many different areas of the law, including the law of...

With the current advances in aircraft design and Lithium-Ion batteries, electric aircraft are expected to serve as a replacement for conventional, short-range aircraft. This paper addresses the main operational challenges for short-range flights operated with electric aircraft: determining the...

This paper empirically studies how emission pricing affects capital replacement and adoption of embodied environmental technology. A pricing policy encourages firms to accelerate retirement of old capital assets and replace them with newer more efficient assets, but this may crowd out...

Convective weather poses a major threat that compromises the safe operation of flights while inducing delay and cost. The aircraft trajectory optimization problem under thunderstorms is addressed, proposing a novel heuristic approach that incorporates uncertainties in the evolution of convective...

Due to the dynamic development of environmentally friendly aircraft propulsion, the paper describes the effect of distributed propulsion on the emission and fuel consumption changes of aircraft in comparison to aircraft with traditional propulsion. The analysis was based on the technical data of...

Abstract Modern commercial aircraft can experience significant solar loading during turnaround when the aircraft is stationary on the tarmac. With the increased usage of composite materials, a change in the aircraft thermal environment results due to the substantial difference in metal and...

Airlines are known to compete for passengers, and airline profitability heavily depends on the ability to estimate passenger demand, which in turn depends on flight schedules, fares and the number of seats available at each fare, across all airlines. Interestingly, such competitive interactions...

Using a sample of commercial aircraft transactions, the paper decomposes the raw fire sale discount on sales of aircraft by distressed airlines into three components: (i) quality impairment due to under-maintenance, (ii) misallocation to lower productivity users, and (iii) a liquidity component...

Warren Buffett famously commented that the US airline industry had made zero profit in its first nine decades. Subsequently, between the millennium and the Great Financial Crisis the airlines in total lost almost $60bn. Yet no major airline was liquidated or taken over in those nine years....

This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in...

This publication examines the potential of novel fuels to decarbonise aviation and maritime shipping. Fuels like hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic hydrocarbons can be produced from renewable sources. They could also be easier to deploy than other emerging low- and zero-carbon technologies. Yet...

Aviation is a key sector of the economy, contributing at least 3% to gross domestic product (GDP) in the UK and the US. Currently, airline performance statistics are published with a three month delay. However, aircraft now broadcast their location in real-time using the Automated Dependent...

Aircraft operations and maintenance is heavily regulated to ensure safety. This necessitates a large volume of paperwork as evidence of due process. The paperwork flows through the multiple stakeholders including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Lessors, Maintenance Repair and Overhaul...

The aircraft landing problem (ALP) is the problem of allocating an airport's runways to arriving aircraft as well as scheduling the landing time of aircraft, with the objective of minimizing the total deviations from the target landing times. We propose simple heuristics to solve the ALP. The...

Chapter 1. The Globalization and Evolution of the Aviation Industry -- Chapter 2. Aircraft Variants and Manufacturing Specifications -- Chapter 3. Aircraft Financial and Operational Efficiencies -- Chapter 4. The Foundation and Economics of Aircraft Valuation -- Chapter 5. A Step-By-Step...