Research on Airline Pilot Allocation Based on Safety Considerations

Abstract

With the continuous impact of COVID-19, the task of the airline changes so rapidly that the pilots’ estimation and allocation were needed. In this paper, a mathematical model for the pilots’ allocation is established based on the real air fleet to estimate the pilots’ demand and to arrange the flight tasks in the airline. This approach serves as an alternative for the human resource management in the air company for the long-term plan. The innovative contributions in this paper include: a) The pilots’ allocation with the international long-distance flights and the domain short-distance flights were considered in this paper. b) The minimum number of pilots to finish the flights in an air company was estimated to support the air company’s long-term plan. Additionally, a heuristic algorithm is developed to get an approximate resolution to the model with less time. Computational result is approximate to the theoretical results, which proved its effectiveness.