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Airlines and Aviation
Turn Airline Complexity into Better Decisions
Use mathematical optimization to make complex decisions across your network, schedule, revenue, fleet, and crew—balancing profitability, efficiency, service, and operational constraints.

Airlines and Aviation
Turn Airline Complexity into Better Decisions
Use mathematical optimization to make complex decisions across your network, schedule, revenue, fleet, and crew—balancing profitability, efficiency, service, and operational constraints.

Airlines and Aviation
Turn Airline Complexity into Better Decisions
Use mathematical optimization to make complex decisions across your network, schedule, revenue, fleet, and crew—balancing profitability, efficiency, service, and operational constraints.
Optimization for the Decisions That Keep Airlines Moving
Airlines make complex, interconnected decisions across every planning horizon: which markets to serve and flights to operate, how to price and manage seat inventory, how to deploy aircraft and plan maintenance, how to staff and schedule crews, and how to reassign critical resources when operations are disrupted. Gurobi helps airlines optimize these decisions while accounting for the operational, financial, regulatory, and contractual constraints behind them.
Improve network profitability and connectivity by optimizing routes, schedules, hubs, capacity, and airport slots.
Maximize revenue from every flight by optimizing fares, seat inventory, capacity-to-demand matching, and ancillary offers.
Get more from aircraft and maintenance capacity while reducing operating costs, fuel burn, idle capacity, and unnecessary disruption.
Use crew capacity more effectively while balancing cost, productivity, qualifications, regulatory requirements, preferences, and fairness.
Reduce the impact of disruptions by re-optimizing aircraft and crew decisions to minimize delays and cancellations and restore operations faster.
Optimization for the Decisions That Keep Airlines Moving
Airlines make complex, interconnected decisions across every planning horizon: which markets to serve and flights to operate, how to price and manage seat inventory, how to deploy aircraft and plan maintenance, how to staff and schedule crews, and how to reassign critical resources when operations are disrupted. Gurobi helps airlines optimize these decisions while accounting for the operational, financial, regulatory, and contractual constraints behind them.
Improve network profitability and connectivity by optimizing routes, schedules, hubs, capacity, and airport slots.
Maximize revenue from every flight by optimizing fares, seat inventory, capacity-to-demand matching, and ancillary offers.
Get more from aircraft and maintenance capacity while reducing operating costs, fuel burn, idle capacity, and unnecessary disruption.
Use crew capacity more effectively while balancing cost, productivity, qualifications, regulatory requirements, preferences, and fairness.
Reduce the impact of disruptions by re-optimizing aircraft and crew decisions to minimize delays and cancellations and restore operations faster.
Optimization for the Decisions That Keep Airlines Moving
Airlines make complex, interconnected decisions across every planning horizon: which markets to serve and flights to operate, how to price and manage seat inventory, how to deploy aircraft and plan maintenance, how to staff and schedule crews, and how to reassign critical resources when operations are disrupted. Gurobi helps airlines optimize these decisions while accounting for the operational, financial, regulatory, and contractual constraints behind them.
Improve network profitability and connectivity by optimizing routes, schedules, hubs, capacity, and airport slots.
Maximize revenue from every flight by optimizing fares, seat inventory, capacity-to-demand matching, and ancillary offers.
Get more from aircraft and maintenance capacity while reducing operating costs, fuel burn, idle capacity, and unnecessary disruption.
Use crew capacity more effectively while balancing cost, productivity, qualifications, regulatory requirements, preferences, and fairness.
Reduce the impact of disruptions by re-optimizing aircraft and crew decisions to minimize delays and cancellations and restore operations faster.
Opportunities for Optimization
Opportunities for Optimization
Opportunities for Optimization

Air France
Air France: Tail Assignment Optimization
Air France saves around 1% on fuel costs annually, on top of what they thought was an optimal fuel bill.

Air France: Tail Assignment Optimization
Air France saves around 1% on fuel costs annually, on top of what they thought was an optimal fuel bill.
Airlines and Aviation
Case Studies
Case Studies
Copenhagen Airport: Gate and Stand Assignment
Copenhagen Airport maximizes aircraft stand utilization, avoiding costly expansions and improving future capacity planning.
Case Studies
Eurodecision: Geneva Airport Shift and Personnel Planning Optimization
Geneva Airport aligns staff shifts with surging flight traffic, cutting planning inefficiencies through mathematical optimization.
Case Studies
Lufthansa: Flight Training GmbH
Lufthansa Flight Training optimizes long-term simulator scheduling across 45 devices and 150+ airlines worldwide.
Airlines and Aviation
Case Studies
Case Studies
Copenhagen Airport: Gate and Stand Assignment
Copenhagen Airport maximizes aircraft stand utilization, avoiding costly expansions and improving future capacity planning.
Case Studies
Eurodecision: Geneva Airport Shift and Personnel Planning Optimization
Geneva Airport aligns staff shifts with surging flight traffic, cutting planning inefficiencies through mathematical optimization.
Airlines and Aviation
Case Studies
Case Studies
Copenhagen Airport: Gate and Stand Assignment
Copenhagen Airport maximizes aircraft stand utilization, avoiding costly expansions and improving future capacity planning.
Case Studies
Eurodecision: Geneva Airport Shift and Personnel Planning Optimization
Geneva Airport aligns staff shifts with surging flight traffic, cutting planning inefficiencies through mathematical optimization.
Case Studies
Lufthansa: Flight Training GmbH
Lufthansa Flight Training optimizes long-term simulator scheduling across 45 devices and 150+ airlines worldwide.

Airline Operations Podcast
How Technology and AI Are Streamlining Airline Operations
Learn how airline leaders are using advanced analytics, AI, and optimization to improve operational performance and make more resilient decisions.

Airline Operations Podcast
How Technology and AI Are Streamlining Airline Operations
Learn how airline leaders are using advanced analytics, AI, and optimization to improve operational performance and make more resilient decisions.

Airline Operations Podcast
How Technology and AI Are Streamlining Airline Operations
Learn how airline leaders are using advanced analytics, AI, and optimization to improve operational performance and make more resilient decisions.
Airlines and Aviation
Upcoming Events

AGIFORS 66th Annual Symposium
Gurobi is proud to sponsor AGIFORS in Istanbul, Oct 25–29. Join us to explore how optimization is powering smarter scheduling, crew planning, and network decisions across the airline industry.

2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Gurobi is heading to INFORMS in San Francisco, Nov 1-4. Connect with the Gurobi team throughout the week, and join us for a happy hour with fellow optimization practitioners and researchers.
Airlines and Aviation
Upcoming Events

AGIFORS 66th Annual Symposium
Gurobi is proud to sponsor AGIFORS in Istanbul, Oct 25–29. Join us to explore how optimization is powering smarter scheduling, crew planning, and network decisions across the airline industry.

2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Gurobi is heading to INFORMS in San Francisco, Nov 1-4. Connect with the Gurobi team throughout the week, and join us for a happy hour with fellow optimization practitioners and researchers.
Airlines and Aviation
Upcoming Events

AGIFORS 66th Annual Symposium
Gurobi is proud to sponsor AGIFORS in Istanbul, Oct 25–29. Join us to explore how optimization is powering smarter scheduling, crew planning, and network decisions across the airline industry.

2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Gurobi is heading to INFORMS in San Francisco, Nov 1-4. Connect with the Gurobi team throughout the week, and join us for a happy hour with fellow optimization practitioners and researchers.
"We estimate that we are saving around 1% on fuel costs with huge volumes for the entire fleet."
— Solene Richard, Data Science and Operational Research Team Leader, Air France KLM
"We estimate that we are saving around 1% on fuel costs with huge volumes for the entire fleet."
— Solene Richard, Data Science and Operational Research Team Leader, Air France KLM
"We estimate that we are saving around 1% on fuel costs with huge volumes for the entire fleet."
— Solene Richard, Data Science and Operational Research Team Leader, Air France KLM
Frequently Asked Questions
Optimization helps airlines quickly evaluate many possible recovery options and choose plans that best balance operational constraints, customer impact, aircraft availability, crew rules, and network performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Optimization helps airlines quickly evaluate many possible recovery options and choose plans that best balance operational constraints, customer impact, aircraft availability, crew rules, and network performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Optimization helps airlines quickly evaluate many possible recovery options and choose plans that best balance operational constraints, customer impact, aircraft availability, crew rules, and network performance.
Start Solving with Gurobi
Try Gurobi on your own optimization models and see how it performs on real decision problems.
Start Solving with Gurobi
Try Gurobi on your own optimization models and see how it performs on real decision problems.
Start Solving with Gurobi
Try Gurobi on your own optimization models and see how it performs on real decision problems.
