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Bounds on the performance of back-to-front airplane boarding policies

We provide bounds on the performance of back-to-front airplane boarding policies. In particular, we show that no back-to-front policy can be more than 20% better than the policy which boards passengers randomly.

Publication language English
Pages 597-601
Journal Operations Research Letters
Volume 36
Issue number 5
Publication status Published - 01.09.2008

Keywords

Airplane boarding
Stochastic modeling
Transportation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Management Science and Operations Research
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Access to Document
10.1016/j.orl.2008.03.008
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