American Airlines Managment American Airlines is a corporation that exhibits all of the characteristics of a firm in an industry where good tactical management is the key to long term sucess and survival. The airline industry is a prime example of a market where cutthroat competitive activity is the status quo. Airlines that survive in this environment do so through the understanding and continued improvement of the way in which tactical management tasks are addressed. …showed first 75 words of 2811 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2811 total…which yields the lowest cost for flight crews possible for a given flight schedule. The system will continually runs through iterations of the optimization routine and, if the set of bidlines it determines is more optimal than the last, replaces the former with the latter. Naturally, the faster the iteration speed of the system, mainframe or LAN, the sooner the system arrives at the optimal solution. The following flow chart describes the subproblem iteration methodology.