Grey programming for irregular flight scheduling

This paper represents the application of grey programming in Flights Schedule Recovery Problem (FSRP). The ready time of recovery aircrafts is a grey variable at the beginning of resuming phrase, but few authors considered it. In this paper, a grey programming method is introduced to solve the FSRP. A mathematical model for FSRP including grey parameters is presented and a grey simulation technology based on shortest path algorithm is proposed to get the optimal results. The feasibility and effectiveness of the model and method are verified by the simulation results.