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...

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...

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...

We consider the problem of minimizing the number of airplanes needed to fly a fixed daily repeating schedule of flights. We use deficit functions (DF) to decompose an aviation schedule of aircraft flights into aircraft chains (routes) called a chain decomposition. Each chain visits periodically...

In this paper, we provide arrival time prediction combined with a cost index optimization model for short haul flights. Our work is based on flight data of a European network carrier. We focus on predicting the arrival time for incoming flights at two hub locations. Airlines focus on two aspects...

In Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, weaponized flying robots project military power. As peace returns, visionaries plan to repatriate this technology for commercial use. They promise us a bright future where robotic aircraft deliver beer and burritos. Why risk a DUI, when you can use your very own...