2022 SSP Study Group Meeting

2022 Online Meeting - Scheduling and Strategic Planning (SSP)

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions still in place in many parts of the world, all AGIFORS study group meetings will be ONLINE in 2022. 2022 SSP Study Group meeting will be held on May 23, May 24, and May 25.

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REGISTRATION

As this conference is again an online event, the registration fees could be kept very low.

Agifors members working for an airline: USD 20
Agifors members not working for an airline: USD 50
Non-Agifors members: USD 75

Register here for the SSP 2022 Meeting.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Here are the technical presentation abstracts.

All times in UTC

Day 1		Monday, May 23
UTC	Duration	Title	Speakers
13:00		Attendees start logging in
13:30	0:10	Study Group Chairs' welcome remarks	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)
13:40	0:05	President's welcome address	Laurie Garrow (AGIFORS President)
13:45	0:45	Keynote address Future of Airline Scheduling and Planning: Challenges and Opportunities	Nawal Taneja Airline Business Strategist and Author
14:30	0:30	A Dynamic Model For Airline Fleeting And Scheduling	Chiwei Yan University of Washington
15:00	0:30	Sponsor presentation - Amadeus	Jeremy Million
15:30	0:15	Break
15:45	0:15	Airline Update - American Airlines	Jataveda Dasgupta
16:00	0:25	Probabilistic Flight Delay Predictions Using Machine Learning and Applications to the Flight-to-Gate Assignment Problem	Mike Zoutendijk Delft University of Technology
16:25	0:35	Robust Scheduling: Art or Science?	Pranav Gupta (Amadeus) Silvana Param (LATAM Airlines)
17:00	0:45	Flight Block Time Design for Airline Schedule Planning	Ahmed Abdelghany Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
17:45		Day1 Closing	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)


Day 2		Tuesday, May 24
UTC	Duration	Title	Speakers
13:00		Attendees start logging in
13:30	0:10	Day2 welcome	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)
13:40	0:40	Holistic Network and Schedule Optimization at Lufthansa Group	Fabio Ghielmetti, Timo Koch, Dominique Schmitt-Bohlender Lufthansa Group
14:20	0:40	Clean Sheet Scheduling: Truth or Myth?	Pranav Gupta (Amadeus) David Hagerhjelm, John Gatu (Southwest Airlines)
15:00	0:30	Sponsor Presentation - Boom Supersonic	Trent Geekie, Mike Caputo, Ben Murphy
15:30	0:15	Break
15:45	1:00	Panel Discussion Turning Crisis to Opportunity What has changed in airline network planning and scheduling, what is here to stay, what remains to evolve?	Aaron McGarvey (Finnair) Sebastian Ponce (Transat) Philippe Puech (American Airlines) Brian Streeval (Boeing)
16:45	0:40	Forecasting the Supersonic Future	Eric Dowty, James Crasta, Matt McElfresh Boom Supersonic
17:25		Day2 Closing	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)


Day 3		Wednesday, May 25
UTC	Duration	Title	Speakers
13:00		Attendees start logging in
13:30	0:05	Day3 welcome	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)
13:35	0:30	Humanitarian Fleet Planning and Weekly Scheduling Optimisation	Thomas Billet (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) Willem-Jozef Van Goethem (Aviation Decision Sciences)
14:05	0:40	Electric flight scheduling with battery-charging and battery-swapping opportunities	Mihaela Mitici TUDelft
14:45	0:15	Airline Update - Southwest Airlines	Matt Muehleisen, Lonny Hurwitz, David Hagerhjelm
15:00	0:30	Sponsor Presentation - Lufthansa Systems	Dirk Bracklow
15:30	0:15	Break
15:45	0:30	Reducing Crews Demand and Crew Related Costs through Flight Schedule Adjustments	Max Andreev Rosterize
16:15	0:30	Maintaining Air Connectivity Considering Extreme Events: Sub-Saharan Africa Case Study	Soheil Sibdari University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
16:45	0:10	Conference Closing and Farewell	Cumhur Gelogullari, Judith Semar (Study Group Chairs)

Keynote Address

We are thrilled to announce that Nawal Taneja will deliver a keynote address on "Future of Airline Scheduling and Planning: Challenges and Opportunities".

Nawal Taneja, whose experience in the aviation industry spans five decades, has worked for, and advised major airlines and related aviation businesses worldwide. Currently, he serves, as an Executive-in-Residence at the Fisher College of Business, at the Ohio State University. He has authored an airline management series of 13 books, written at the encouragement of, and for, practitioners in the global aviation industry. This series attempts to move the arc of thinking about aviation businesses to develop, capture, and deliver new value by pursuing creativity and collaboration to drive change. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering, a master’s degree in Flight Transportation, a master’s degree in Business Administration, a doctorate in Air Transportation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.

Panel Discussion - Turning Crisis to Opportunity

We are delighted to introduce our distinguished panel, and looking forward to a live discussion on Challenges and Opportunities in Airline Network Planning and Scheduling: What has changed, what is here to stay, what remains to evolve. Our panel will also share their thoughts and insights on how SSP community can help develop best network planning and scheduling models, tools, and processes.

Click on pictures for bios.

Aaron McGarvey

Director of

Business Development,

Network and Resource Management

Finnair

Sebastian Ponce

Sr Director of

Network, Scheduling, and Alliances

Transat

Philippe Puech

Director of

Domestic Network Planning

American Airlines

Brian Streeval

Regional Director of

Network and Fleet Planning

Boeing

Participation

We are looking forward to an enriching meeting with representatives from the following (so far) 31 airlines, 25 solution providers, vendors, industry, government, and other organizations, and 9 academic institutions.

Air Canada	Airbus	Beihang University
Air France - KLM	Airline Strategy Group	Delft University of Technology
Air Transat	Amadeus	DLR, Institute of Air Transportation Systems
Alaska Airlines	Aviation Decision Sciences	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Amazon Air	Boeing	Georgia Institute of Technology
American Airlines	BoldIQ	McGill University
Azul Brazilian Airlines	Boom Supersonic	Sastra University
Binter Canarias	Croowy	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Cathay Pacific	Decisal	University of Washington
Delta Air Lines	FLYR Labs
easyJet	IBM
Emirates	ICF
flydubai	Industrial Optimizers
GoFirst Airlines	InterGlobe
GOL Airlines	Jeppesen
Hawaiian Airlines	Lift Airline Planning
jetBlue	Lufthansa Systems
LATAM Airlines	OptiFly
Lufthansa	Rostrerize
Pegasus Airlines	Sabre
Portugalia Airlines	Stena Line
Qatar Airways	T2RL
Saudia Airlines	VIA Software
Southwest Airlines	Zenz Technologies
Sun Air	Zulu Airline Systems
Swiss Air
TUI Airways
Turkish Airlines
United Airlines
Volaris
Vueling

Sponsorship Info

The AGIFORS SSP Study Group welcomes sponsors supporting our event and our community. Sponsorship is especially welcome because it enables AGIFORS to keep registration fees as low as possible and this enables academics and airlines to continue attending the conferences and provide new insights and research to the broader airline community. A strong presence by airlines brings great value to both the vendors and the airlines. This would only be possible because of our sponsors - thank you!

Gold Sponsors (USD 1000)

Since this is an online event, the sponsorship options are limited. There will be no booths to display and there will just be a single sponsorship option for USD 1000. Our sponsors will get a 20-minute sponsor presentation within the main program and their logo will be posted on this website. If you would like to sign up as a sponsor or for any questions, please contact ssp@agifors.org or complete the online sponsorship form.

MORE INFORMATION

For questions or more information, please contact SSP study group chairs:

Contact us

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Email: president@agifors.org