In a business as complex as the airline industry, economic success depends on optimizing business processes with regard to costs and resource use. For more than ten years, Lufthansa Systems has been making a name for itself with solutions in this field. Using the latest mathematic and computer science methods, the powerful tools of the NetLine Optimization Suite help airlines optimize network planning, flight scheduling, crew management and operations control.
Using NetLine optimizers, airlines profit in many ways, namely regarding cost efficiency due to optimal use of resources, robustness of the flight plan, and stability of duty and rotation schedules – no matter how many changes have to be carried out.
Seamless and integrated optimization
Local optima, patchy coverage and loss of efficiency due to a highly volatile environment – these are the characteristics of today’s cycle of planning and control. But the future already has begun. The NetLine optimization suite takes an integrated and seamless optimization approach. ‘Integrated’ means considering the resources aircraft, crew, and passenger simultaneously and thereby implementing a holistic approach and targeting a global optimum. ‘Seamless’ means the ability to achieve continuous re-optimization at every stage of planning and control and thereby targeting the best possible conservation of efficiency and profitability.
