A disruption management problem for commercial airlines has been presented by Amadeus for the ROADEF 2009 Challenge, an international competition organised by the French Operational Research and Decision Support Society (ROADEF). This paper presents this industrial large scale optimisation...

Airlines constantly face disruptions caused by external or internal factors like extreme weather conditions, unavailability of crew members, aircraft breakdowns, or airspace capacity shortages. These disruptions prevent the execution of the schedule. Significant research has been devoted to both...