Piedmont Airlines: Discount Seat Allocation (B)

8 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2008

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Samuel E. Bodily

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

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Abstract

In the B case, the initial results from a Monte Carlo simulation seem to conflict with the critical-fractile result obtained earlier. The manager must figure out why and then make a decision. See also the A case (UVA-QA-0339).

Keywords: decision theory, diverse protagonist, female, Monte Carlo simulation, probability, service industries, management of, simulation, diversity

Suggested Citation

Bodily, Samuel E., Piedmont Airlines: Discount Seat Allocation (B). UVA-QA-0340, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=911846 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.911846

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