Flight Scheduling and Operations Mid - I, September - 2014

1.A ______________ is defined as a collection of points and lines joining these points.
  • Network
  • nodes
  • arcs, links
  • arrows
Answer: A
2.Aircraft are normally distinguished by their ______________numbers
  • fleet assignment model
  • tail registration
  • tail number
  • turn-around
Answer: B
3.In a network, the lines are referred to as _______________
  • Network
  • nodes
  • arcs, links
  • arrows
Answer: C
4.If the flow through an arc is allowed only in one direction, then the arc is said to be a _________
  • directed arc
  • undirected arc
  • path
  • Source
Answer: A
5.A ___________cycle is when an aircraft starts from a city, and at the end of the three-day cycle, ends up at that same city to start another cycle.
  • Turn-around
  • closed
  • minimum cost
  • strategic
Answer: B
6.A ____________is a sequence of distinct arcs that connect two nodes.
  • undirected arc
  • path
  • Source
  • Destination
Answer: B
7.To overcome the flight schedule difficulties, the process is based on a ________
  • strategic
  • feedback system
  • Load factor
  • load factor inverse
Answer: A
8._____________is a last node in the path
  • source
  • node
  • Destination
  • Set-covering
Answer: C
9.___________ problems relate to cases where each member of one set should be assigned/matched to member(s) of another set
  • path
  • node
  • Destination
  • Set-covering
Answer: D
10.The______________ is utilized to determine the frequency between city pairs
  • Set-covering
  • load factor
  • Yield
  • ‘unit revenue’
Answer: B
11.__________is how much an airline makes per revenue passenger mile (kilometer)
Answer: Yield
12.Revenue per Available Seat Mile (Kilometer), or ____________represents how much an airline made across all the available seats that were supplied
Answer: ‘unit revenue’
13.___________represents the annual airline capacity, or supply of seats, and refers to the number of seats available for passengers during the year multiplied by the number of miles (kilometers) that those seats are flown.
Answer: Available Seat Miles (Kilometers)
14.___________ represents the total number of paying passengers flown on all flight segments multiplied by the number of miles (kilometers) that those passengers are flown
Answer: Revenue Passenger Miles (Kilometers)
15.If the flight has more than one direction through an arc, it is in a ______________ arc.
Answer: Undirected
16.____________is the average cost of flying one seat for a mile (kilometer).
Answer: Cost per Available Seat Mile (Kilometer) or ‘unit cost’
17.CASM (CASK) is calculated by dividing the total operating cost by _____________
Answer: ASM (ASK)
18.The operating costs for a flight mainly depend on the type of the _________assigned to that flight
Answer: Fleet
19.The ____________ represents the percentage of passengers that were spilled, but could be accommodated on other flights by the same airline
Answer: The recapture rate
20.The first set of constraints is what is typically known as _____________
Answer: Flight cover