Airline Seat Inventory Control Based on Passenger Choice Behavior
基于乘客选择行为的航空机票控制模型研究

Revenue management has been a powerful weapon to obtain competitive edge for many industries such as the airlines and hotels ever since the late 1970s.Based on the analysis of a totally differential pricing model,this paper focuses on the dynamic seat inventory control of a flight with two fare classes.A pricing mechanism named "markup" is proposed,which is a practicable solution in real world,and the relationships between optimal seat inventory control decision and such factors as supply,demand and prices are analyzed.Numerical experiments show that the markup mechanism is a good approximation to the totally differential pricing mechanism.