Aircraft Turnaround: A Descriptive Study and Analysis Optimisation Using Mathematical Model

Abstract

In recent years, with the phenomenal growth of many low-cost airlines, competitiveness has increased significantly. Within this competition, to achieve an on-time departure performance is a momentous factor; thus providing those airlines with on-time departure performance with a foremost competitive advantage. On-time departure performance is important for airlines to satisfy passengers by departing on adequate scheduled time of departure (STD). The main component of achieving on time departure is being able to complete the turnaround time of an aircraft within its scheduled time. By considering this problem, optimally scheduling of turnaround time was studied in this thesis as a real case of a low-cost company.

Keywords: aircraft turnaround, on-time performance

JEL Classification: L93