MGMT 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maximum Takeoff Weight, Middle East Airlines, Jet Fuel
15 Dec 2017
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Linear programming has been used for airline fuel management. The problem is complicated by the fact that the weight of jet fuel itself causes more fuel burn-off. Consider the following small problem for the flight sequence of an a310-200 of middle east airlines: The jet has just landed in beirut with 8,000 kg of fuel on board. The average flight time to kuwait is 2. 54 hours. The fuel burn-off has been shown to be approximately a linear function of the duration of flight multiplied by the take-off weight of the airplane. The tank capacity is 44,000 kg and the maximum takeoff weight is 138,600 kg. The safety stock of fuel at the end of this leg is 7,508 kg. The price of jet fuel in beirut is sh. 765 per gallon (a gallon of jet fuel weighs 3. 1 kg). The price of jet fuel in kuwait is. The return leg from kuwait to beirut is expected to take 2. 79 hours.
