Forecasting passenger load for a fixed planning horizon

This paper presents a forecasting system for predicting the number of boarding passengers on each of the next N departure dates of a particular flight leg using as input the booking levels made for the next N departure dates of that flight leg. A forecasting system that gives good estimates of futur...

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Main Author: Saab, Samer S. (author)
Other Authors: Zouein, Pierrette P. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2001
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0969-6997(01)00030-8
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699701000308
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Summary:This paper presents a forecasting system for predicting the number of boarding passengers on each of the next N departure dates of a particular flight leg using as input the booking levels made for the next N departure dates of that flight leg. A forecasting system that gives good estimates of future boardings of a particular flight leg is an important and essential tool for route management in the airline industry. The proposed forecasting system consists of a Kalman filter, which optimally integrates a large class of reservation measurements from a variety of sources and at arbitrary times, which is the case of the data, considered here. The accuracy of the predictions for a case study proved to be promising.