A multi-flight recapture heuristic for estimating unconstrained demand from airline bookings

A new approach is described for airline revenue management (RM) demand unconstraining considering market recapture effects across multiple flights and fare classes. A good heuristic involving customer choice models is shown to provide a computationally efficient method for estimating demand, spill a...

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Published in:Journal of revenue and pricing management 2008-06, Vol.7 (2), p.153-171
Main Authors: Ratliff, Richard M, Venkateshwara Rao, B, Narayan, Chittur P, Yellepeddi, Kartik
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