This is an Airline overbooking problem where I need to find out how many tickets should the airline overbook to keep the profit maximum. Let us say that the number of seats on plane is 100. My revenue from each ticket is 5000 and cost per passenger is 100. The cost of refunding a passenger in case of overbooking is 10000.
Probability of passenger showing up is 0.9.
This is an Airline overbooking problem where I need to find out how many tickets should the airline overbook to keep the profit maximum. Let us say that the number of seats on plane is 100. My revenue...
What happened on United flight 3411?What service expectations do customers have of airlines such as United and How did these expectations develop over time? Thank You! In early April 2017, United Airlines (United), one of the largest airlines in the world, found itself yet again in the middle of a service disaster this time for forcibly dragging a passenger off an overbooked flight. The incident was to become a wake-up call for United, forcing it to ask itself what to...