کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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482490 | 1446214 | 2006 | 19 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This article proposes a continuous-time model to combine seat control and overbooking policies for single-leg flights. We assume that demand is time-and-fare dependent and follows a Poisson process. No-show passengers receive refunds which depend on their fares. Overbooking penalty is a uniformly convex function of oversale. To maximize the expected revenue, airline managers seek optimal seat allocation among competing passengers. In the meantime, they need to determine an optimal aggregate overbooking upper bound, which balances the no-show refunds and oversale penalties. Our basic model shows (i) although the nested-fare structure does not hold for the face value of fares, its essence is preserved in the sense of net fares; i.e., the face value less the no-show refund; (ii) the optimal control policy is based on a set of pre-calculated time thresholds, which is easy to implement; and (iii) there exists an optimal overbooking upper bound, below which the value function strictly increases in the upper bound, and above which the value function stays constant. We further extend the basic model to consider fare-dependent no-show rates. Numerical examples are presented.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 174, Issue 2, 16 October 2006, Pages 1298–1316