1. Background Information

Airline scheduling is an important aspect in the airline industry which enables the airline to generate more income and provide more, better and faster flight to customers’ destination. Airline scheduling includes scheduling of working time and days of crew, operating time and day of aircraft, forecasting, pricing, fleet planning and financing in the airline industry. Airline scheduling includes both planning in advance and on the day of operations itself.

Planning in advance includes planning of schedules of flight and making plans for long distance flight through transition in other countries also known as hub-and-spoke scheduling.
Planning on the day of operations itself may be due to unforeseen events such as weather disruption, maintenance problem with aircraft, security issues, congestion in air traffic, affected by other flight schedule change.

2. Advantages of Airline Scheduling

Airline scheduling benefit passengers and airlines the most.
It has a fixed arrival and departure time of flights which ensures reliability to passengers as they are able to plan their holiday trips in advance. With scheduled flights, passengers that miss their flights will not be too affected as there are alternative airlines that fly to the same destination and there are usually flights departing every hour.
It also allows airlines to operate efficiently, effectively and economically.
For example, fleet assignment which is assigning an aircraft type to each