An air freight forwarder’s resource planning and revenue management
研究了航空货运代理在获取舱位时，如何通过控制限额进行收益管理，并分析了资源规划与收益管理决策的关系，发现收益管理会减少资源获取量，且控制限额对预期利润的贡献随容量水平呈单峰变化。
Forwarders acquire cargo space from airlines, partners, and subcontracting agents. Their customers may be categorised into two segments: regular and ad hoc. This paper examines the relationship between a forwarder’s resource planning and revenue management decisions. We first consider a static scenario where regular demand occurs before ad hoc demand with a three-stage model. We then consider a dynamic scenario where demands of different segments may overlap using a Markov decision process model. In both scenarios, revenue management (via control limits) decreases resources acquired, and the contribution of control limits to expected profit is unimodal with respect to capacity level.