From a total of 8 submitted articles the 2022 Anna Valicek Award Committee has selected the two finalists for the 2022 Anna Valicek Award

• Kevin Wang, MIT: Airline Dynamic Offer Creation using a Markov Chain Choice Model
• Simon Van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology: Dispatching a fleet of electric towing vehicles for aircraft taxiing with conflict avoidance and efficient battery charging

As finalists, they will present their work at the upcoming 2022 AGIFORS Symposium (check the Symposium page for more details). Then, the AGIFORS Council will select the winner of the 2022 Anna Valicek Award.

AGIFORS president Laurie Garrow was recently interviewed for the BBC World Service as part of their Inquiry radio and podcast series. The segment - a deep dive on air travel - will air on 21JUL. Check it out here to learn more about the most pressing issues in air travel!

AGIFORS’ Anna Valicek Award competition is destined to recognize original and innovative research in the application of operations research to airline and/or airline related business problems. We invite you to submit your research paper before June 1^st, 2022!
Refer to the Anna Valicek page for more details on the criteria and eligibility.

AGIFORS’ Ken Wang Scholars Program is destined to recognize researchers who are in the early stages of their careers and engaged in an airline operations research. We invite you to submit your application before June 1^st, 2022!
Refer to the Ken Wang Scholars page for more details on the criteria and eligibility.

The winners for the 2021 Anna Valicek medal have been decided!

Silver: Ingeborg de Pater, from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, has been recognized by AGIFORS as Winner of the 2021 Anna Valicek Award and was presented (virtually) with the Silver Anna Valicek Medal for the paper “Predictive maintenance for multi-component systems of repairables with remaining-useful-life prognostics and a limited stock of spare components”.

Bronze: Greta Laage, from IVADO Labs and École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, has been recognized by AGIFORS as Second Place Winner of the 2021 Anna Valicek Award and was presented (virtually) with the Bronze Anna Valicek Medal for the paper “Assessing the impact: Does an improvement to a revenue management system lead to an improved revenue?"

The agenda for this year's Symposium can now be found at: Detailed Agenda Symposium 2021 

The abstracts for the Technical Program are at: Technical Program Symposium 2021

Professor John-Paul Clarke, a long-time member of AGIFORS who has twice served on the AGIFORS Council (as Communications Officer and Secretary) was appointed Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors of Cayman Airways. His two-year appointment by the Cabinet of the Cayman Islands commenced on the 23rd of August. Professor Clarke is well known throughout the airline community for his expertise in the areas of airline schedule planning and operations control. Notably, he has been a fixture at the Airline Operations Study Group for many years. The current AGIFORS Council congratulates Professor Clarke on his appointment.

We are very happy to announce the first 2 recipients of the Ken Wang Scholars Program:

• Dhandabani Srinivasan
• Kevin Wang

Both are invited to present their work and research objectives at the upcoming 2021 AGIFORS Symposium (check the Symposium page for more details).

From a total of 12 submitted articles the 2021 Anna Valicek Award Committee has selected the two finalists for the 2021 Anna Valicek Award:

• Ingeborg de Pater, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: “Predictive maintenance for multi-component systems of repairables with Remaining-Useful-Life prognostics and a limited stock of spare components”
• Greta Laage, IVADO Labs & École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec, Canada: “Assessing the Impact: Does an Improvement to a Revenue Management System Lead to an Improved Revenue?”

As finalists, they will present their work at the upcoming 2021 AGIFORS Symposium (check the Symposium page for more details). Then, the AGIFORS Council will select the winner of the 2021 Anna Valicek Award.

AGIFORS’ Ken Wang Scholars Program is destined to recognize practitioners and researchers who are in the early stages of their careers and engaged in airline operations research. We invite you to submit your application before June 1^st, 2021!

Refer to the Ken Wang Scholars page for more details on the criteria and eligibility.