| Abstract: |
The growth of air passenger needs has forced airlines to improve their quality of service. Airlines
have to choose flight schedules by considering demand, passengers preferences and competitors.
The problem of allocating a new flight involves the route network development, and consists
to determine a set of (Origin-Destination) pairs to serve and then choose flight schedules with
respect to the Quality of Service Index (QSI) model. In this PhD project, we work with a software
tool developed by the company Milanamos that helps airline managers to make decisions about
destinations to serve. As a starting point, we define the flight radius problem related to this
software. It is a sub-problem of the route network development problem and aims to optimize the
visualization of the pertinent network by showing only interesting airports regarding QSI model.
In this paper, we present the problem of allocating a new flight and formulate the flight radius
problem as a problem of finding maximal sub-graph. Our objective is to locate in the network
what routes represent business opportunities and are attractive regarding competition so it can
be visualized. We construct the graph from Milanamos the database using the time-independent
approach and store it in Neo4j a graph database. We describe the process of generating and storing
the graph in Neo4j and sum up by outlining the expected outcome. |