Some of the most fundamental revenue management difficulties is how to allocate a fixed capability to various kinds of groups of customers the total gain is maximized. Using the example of a flight traveling from Toronto to Vancouver, the revenue management problem will be to decide, in each period, how much to reserve for the latter types in order optimize the earnings and how much of the demand that is realized to accept.
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The crux of the difficulty revolves around the trade off between spoilage and dilution. The author uses various mathematical formulae (including the static model, Littlewood's Two-Course model and n-Course model of anticipated marginal seat sales) to model optimal seat-allocation consequences.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 11, 2009 PRODUCT #: 909E26-HCB-ENG
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