Temath, Christian: Performance measurement in airline revenue management : a simulation-based assessment of the network-based revenue opportunity model. 2011
Content
- Introduction
- Airline Revenue Management
- Performance Measurement of Revenue Management
- Measuring Performance with the ROM
- Model Definition and Terminology
- Main Properties of the ROM
- Major Developments in Airline Revenue Management Affect the ROM
- Consideration of Practical Aspects in the ROM
- Scope and Purpose of the Thesis
- Airline Revenue Management and Performance Measurement: State-of-the-art
- Airline Revenue Management
- Optimization Models with Independent Demand
- Modeling, Unconstraining and Forecasting Customer Demand
- Optimization Models with Dependent Demand
- Performance Measurement of Revenue Management
- The ROM
- Research Opportunities and Goals of the Thesis
- A Novel Simulation-based Approach to Investigate ROM Properties
- The Simulation Environment
- Modeling Customer Demand and Request Generation
- Unconstraining and Demand Forecasting
- Optimization Models and Seat Inventory Control
- Measuring ROM Robustness
- The Simulation Scenarios
- Summary
- The Network-based ROM with Independent Demand
- Model Definition
- Main Properties of Network-based ROM with Independent Demand
- Computational Results
- Comparing Model- vs. Data-related Errors
- Analyzing the Effect of Unconstraining Errors
- Analyzing the Effect of Further Scenarios
- Summary
- The Network-based ROM with Dependent Demand
- Extensions to the Network-based ROM with Independent Demand
- Properties of the Network-based ROM with Dependent Demand
- Computational Results
- Base Case and Unconstraining Error Scenarios
- Analyzing the Effect of Further Scenarios
- Analyzing the Effect of Different Sell-up Rates
- Summary
- Disaggregation of ROM Measures to Single Legs
- Relation between Network and Leg Level
- Prorating Fares to Single Legs
- Model Definition on a Leg Base
- Computational Results
- No-connecting-traffic Flight Network: Network Level
- No-connecting-traffic Flight Network: Leg Level
- Realistic Flight Network: Leg Level
- Summary
- Disaggregation of ROM Measures to Single Components
- Extending the Network-based ROM to Overbooking and Upgrading
- Potential Revenue with Upgrading
- Potential Revenue with Overbooking
- Actual Revenue after No-shows and Cancelations
- No RM Revenue after No-shows and Cancelations
- Measuring Overbooking and Upgrading Success
- Incremental Revenue due to Overbooking and Upgrading
- ROM with Upgrading
- ROM with Overbooking
- ROM with Overbooking and Upgrading
- Computational Results
- Summary
- Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Detailed Test Results
- The Network-based ROM with Independent Demand
- The Network-based ROM with Dependent Demand
- Disaggregation of ROM Measures to Single Legs
- Disaggregation of ROM Measures to Single Components
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Algorithms
- Notations
- Acronyms
- Bibliography