Airlines Logistics (tnfl07)

• Welcome to the class! A word of caution: Information on this site is not final until the class starts. 

• Lecturer: Valentin Polishchuk (email) 

• Schedule:

  • f2f meetings: 

    • intro lecture: 13-15 on Mon of week 14 (2025: Mon Mar 31, room TP32)

    • Mandatory seminars (own work): 13-15 on  Fridays on weeks 14-21 (excluding Fridays which are holidays), TP31

      • Apr 25: guest lecture from Boeing

      • May 16: no seminar

      • May 23: presentation on SAF 

  • Otherwise no specific times: go through the slides and watch the videos at your pace; submit the homeworks by the deadlines (contact the lecturer with questions whenever you have them)

• Further material: 

  • Sister courses @MIT.OCW -- Airline management and Airline schedule planning

  • Book "The global airline industry" (in LiU library)

    • Books chapters related to the course material

  • Practice exam

  • More practice problems

Homeworks

HWs are not mandatory: they prepare you for the exam. 

Group work is allowed; feel free to form the groups as you like (there are no limits on the group size). Please submit one HW per group.

• Homework 1 (Fleet assignment) due end of week 18

  • Solutions to problems 3 and 6b

  • Solutions 

• Reading assignment: Study Section IV "Irregular operations management" of the textbook. No homework is assigned on the topic.

• Homework 2 (Seat reservation) due end of week 20

  • Solution to problem 1     Video   Scribe notes 

  • Solutions 

Grading

• 1 hp (U, G) for participation in the semniars ("to discuss the online lectures or particular subjects would be expected to set a steady pace for the students to keep up and to be able to engage with each other"; "... this is included in the faculty actions related to the quality review of the FTL programme.")

• 5 hp (U, 3, 4, 5) for the written exam

Slides and Videos

• Admin matters (no video, these may change slightly from year to year)

• Math prelims HW0 (not mandatory, no deadline): answer questions in the slides

• Fleet assignment

Videos: 

• • Airline with 1 a/c (part 1/2) 

  • Airline with 1 a/c (part 2/2) 

    • "board shot" with the IP example

  • Many a/c (of many fleet types)

You may now do Homework 1

• Revenue management

Videos: 

• • Setup, Probability review (1/2)

  • Probability review (2/2) [NB: in the formula for Var[Y], the terms should be switched (the slides have the correct formula)]

  • Optimal seat reservation 

    • Some video about classes

You may now do Homework 2

• Demand modelling   Video      (overbooking on TED)

• Aircraft routing     Video [lapsus linguae @~10m04s: # of vars in x = # of columns in A (not rows)]

• Crew scheduling    Video 

• Sorting facility management, Birds-eye view  (no videos)

Notes: 

• Most lectures were recorded during 2020 class, therefore you may hear references to chat, times, etc

• Errors in videos are mentioned in square brackets [] after the link to the video

• Sorry if YouTube shows ads before the videos -- it's YouTube monetizing,  not me. (AdBlockers on laptop and NewPipe on Android may help.)

• The website style has changed since some videos were recorded, but the site content is essentially the same 

• Many slides are copied from MIT.OCW in accordance with the CC License (remixed and shared alike for non-commercial use)