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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"United Airlines"”.
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Convergence of neo-classical and stakeholder models of the firm? a case study of buy out attempts at United Airlines
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Trends in Air Transportation between the USA and the Asia/Pacific Region with Particular Consideration of United Airlines' Acquisition of the Pan Am Pacific Division
… and foreign flag carriers. This study focuses on United Airlines' acquisition of Pan Am's Pacific Division in 1985. An analysis of selected Pan Am transpacific services in terms of market share and quality of service before 1985 shows a general declining trend. The main reasons for this …
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Analysis of Decision Postponement Strategies for Aircraft Assignment under Uncertainty
… collaboration with our industrial partner, the United Airlines Research and Development Division. Due to the proximity to departures, the DDS problem is restricted by two main constraints: 1) the initial crew schedule needs to be kept intact (due to certain union contracts); and 2) airport …
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Highway 11: A Memoir
… suitcase for ten years as a flight attendant for United Airlines in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Honolulu. During that time, I married Bob, a nice Jewish boy, and converted to Judaism in 1973. We lived in Newport Beach, California for 20 years and reared our three children in the Jewish …
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Integrated Aircraft Fleeting, Routing, and Crew Pairing Models and Algorithms for the Airline Industry
… the total expected profit. Traditionally, airlines deal with these four operational scheduling stages in a sequential manner. However, there exist obvious interdependencies among these stages so that restrictive solutions from preceding stages are likely to limit the scope of decisions for …
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Comparison of Airline Co-Branded Credit Card Programs via Frequent Flyer Money Saver Analysis for Full-Service U.S. Carriers
… miles often encounter difficulties. Sometimes airlines demand an extensive amount of air miles to book requests for award seats to not only their partner airline customers but also their own customers. Furthermore, while the airline co-branded credit card award mile earnings and redemption …
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Integrated Airline Operations: Schedule Design, Fleet Assignment, Aircraft Routing, and Crew Scheduling
… scheduling. The initial problem addressed by airlines is that of schedule design, whereby a set of flights having specific origin and destination cities as well as departure and arrival times is determined. Then, a fleet assignment problem is solved to assign an aircraft type to each flight so …
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Discrete Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs with Applications to Airline Fleet Assignment and Workforce Planning Problems
… each flight leg, the current practice adopted by airlines is to solve the fleet assignment problem using estimated demand data 10-12 weeks in advance of departure. Given the level of uncertainty, deterministic models at this early stage are inadequate to obtain a good match of aircraft capacity …