About

Starting Semester: Spring 2027
Assigned: No
Location: Fort Worth

American Airlines

Client Profile

American Airlines, which recently celebrated its 100th birthday, is the largest airline in the world as measured by carried passengers and employees. Along with its regional partners and affiliates, AA operates an extensive international and domestic network with a fleet of over 1,500 airplanes. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, the airline has hubs in nine different cities around the United States from which it flies nearly 6,000 flights per day to almost 350 destinations in 48 countries, carrying millions of passengers each year

Project Description

A traditional fleet assignment model (FAM) is a model that fully optimizes an airline’s schedule, assigning trips to aircraft types within the constraints imposed by the flights and airports involved. While AA has a functioning FAM that considers such operational constraints, the goal of this project is to build a FAM based on profitability metrics by fleet type so that AA can deploy its airplanes in the most profitable manner possible. This project will focus on the A321neo and the 737 Max 8, AA’s most advanced and fuel-efficient narrow-body aircraft. A successful model will identify which flights on a peak day should be assigned to these two fleets in order to maximize the financial benefit to the company, while accounting for routing restrictions, flight times, and aircraft constraints.

Skills

Optimization, java or python, data analytics, stakeholder management

Data Access Requirement