Postgraduate Course: Operational Research in the Airline Industry (MATH11042)

Course Outline
School	School of Mathematics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	5	ECTS Credits	2.5
Summary	This module will address real world applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. Two specific problems will be discussed, crew scheduling and yield management. Crew scheduling is the problem of the optimal use of crew and flight attendants. It can be formulated as a set partitioning problem, which requires sophisticated combinatorial optimization techniques to solve efficiently. Yield management is the problem of selecting the fares to charge the customers and how to adjust these dynamically in response to bookings. Specific pricing strategies with tools, techniques and their implementation will be discussed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Block 4 (Sem 2)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 50 ( Lecture Hours 10, Summative Assessment Hours 1.5, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 1, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 38 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	See 'Breakdown of Assessment Methods' and 'Additional Notes' above.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Operational Research in the Airline Industry (MATH11042)		1:30

Learning Outcomes
Understanding of real word applications of Operational Research in the airline industry. The ability to formulate and solve certain combinatorial optimization problems as set partitioning problems.