Graves, Glenn W.; McBride, Richard D.; Gershkoff, Ira; … - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 6, pp. 736-745
A new crew scheduling optimization system has been developed for United Airlines. The system was developed to permit … quick response to schedule changes and to reduce crew scheduling costs. It was designed to work efficiently for both the … system has two main components, a generator and an optimizer. The generator creates pairings (candidate crew trips) which are …