into a novel integrated optimization approach that recovers airline schedules, aircraft, and passenger itineraries while … generation for ensuring aircraft maintenance feasibility and an acceleration technique that penalizes deviations from planned …Airlines are known to compete for passengers, and airline profitability heavily depends on the ability to estimate …

. We use deficit functions (DF) to decompose an aviation schedule of aircraft flights into aircraft chains (routes) called … circulating along the airports of this set. The initial step in our approach is to find the minimal number of aircraft needed to … carry out the flight schedule. This is achieved by using the fleet size theorem based on a DF representation of an aircraft …