This year’s AGIFORS Scheduling and Strategic Planning conference will be co-located with and immediately follow Routes Europe. Taking place 9-10 April in Marseille and conveniently located at the stylish and glamorous Novotel Marseille Centre Prado hotel AGIFORS SSP 2014 provides an opportunity for attendees to review the most pressing issues facing airline planning and scheduling today. The event also seeks to offer potential solutions and high level networking.

The opening session, A column generation based maintenance aircraft routing model for scheduling will be led by Kumar Abhishek from United Airlines, followed by a talk on Measuring hub competition on the Europe-Asia market led by Adam Seredynski from Amadeus Travel Intelligence. Other highlights include a talk on Predictive Robust Optimization by Jan Ehrhoff, Lufthansa Systems and Monte Carlo analysis techniques to airplane performance by David Rynes, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. For a full run down of the agenda click here

Exciting topics to be discussed throughout the event relate to demand forecasting, fleet and network planning, alliances and codeshare, long term maintenance planning, fleet assignment and aircraft routing, schedule robustness, governmental rules and regulations, environmental issues, and many others. Discover high level networking and share with us your ideas, thoughts, current trends, business practices, philosophies, and latest technological advances surrounding these topics. These discussions will provide an opportunity to review the most pressing issues facing airline planning and scheduling today, offering potential solutions to delegates.

Attendees will also hear presentations from industry experts from organisations such as Sabre Airline Solutions, Lufthansa Systems, Amadeus, masFlight, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, TAP Portugal and Pompeu Fabra University.

The most recent airlines to confirm their participation include: American Airlines, Air France, airBaltic, airconomy/Amadeus, Lufthansa Airlines, United Airlines and many more.