Stern, Helman I.; Gertsbakh, Ilya B. - In: Operations Research Perspectives 6 (2019), pp. 1-11
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...