1. ¹National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, China
2. ² Aletheia University, Tainan, Taiwan

Correspondence: S Yan, Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32054, China. E-mail: t320002@cc.ncu.edu.tw

Received May 2006; Accepted March 2007; Published online 6 June 2007.

Abstract

The aim in this research is to develop a model that will assist in the reassignment of flights to common-use check-in counters following airport incidents. The model is formulated as a zero-one integer program. To develop a solution method that will efficiently solve the large problems that occur in the real world, we employ a decomposition technique, where a series of two relaxations of the original model are solved repeatedly. Numerical tests are performed based on a hypothetical incident that is mainly based on data from a Taiwan airport. The obtained results show that the model and the solution method could be useful for the airport authority in actual operations.