AGIFORS Revenue Management 2016

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Conference Agenda

 

Wednesday – May 18

18:30 – 20:30

 

Welcome Reception

at Frankfurt Marriott Hotel

Sponsored by AGIFORS

 

Thursday – May 19

08:15 – 16:00

Conference Registration

 

 

 

08:45 – 09:00

Conference Overview

Tassio Carvalho & Sunny Ja  – AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group

   

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome and Keynote Speech

Christian Popp - Lufthansa Group

 

09:30 – 10:05

Solving the primary objective of RM - Revenue maximization through revenue forecasting

Burak Ozdaryal – United Airlines

 

10:05 – 10:40

Airline seat allocation with overbooking for unrestricted and fare family fare-structures

Thomas Fiig – Amadeus

  

10:40 – 10:55

Coffee break

 

10:55 – 11:30

Moving towards personalization in airline RM: Dynamic adjustments of availability and fare quotes

Michael D. Wittman and Peter Belobaba – MIT

 

11:30 – 12:05

Incorporating Ancillary Services in Passenger Choice: Revenue and Booking Impacts

Adam Bockelie – MIT International Center for Air Transportation

 

 

 

12:05 – 12:40

 

Do Consumers Benefit from Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing?

Guillermo Gallego - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

12:40 – 13:40

 

Lunch at Frankfurt Marriott Hotel

Sponsored by QL2

  

 

13:40 – 14:15

Measuring Performance of an Airline’s Fare Class Realignment

Goutham Komirishetty – Etihad Airways

      

 

14:15 – 14:50

"User Influence.  What is it good for?"

Bill Brunger - PODS Research LLC

 

 

14:50 – 15:25

Modeling customer behavior for advanced seat reservation

Shuai Shao - Lufthansa German Airlines

 

 

15:25 – 15:40

 

Coffee break

          

 

15:40 – 16:15

Robust Revenue Opportunity Modeling

Richard Ratliff – Sabre

        

 

16:15 – 16:50

Dynamic Learning Approach for Personalized Offer Recommendations

Markus Ettl – IBM

  

16:50 – 17:25

Nonparametric Demand Estimation in Airline Revenue Management

Johannes Jφrg - RWTH Aachen University

      

19:00 – 22:00

 

 

 

Networking Dinner Cruise

Sponsored by Sabre Airline Solution

 

 

 

Friday – May 20

 

 

 

 

08:30 – 09:00

Use of Dynamic User Influence and Forecast Multipliers in a Perfectly Tuned PODS Network U10

Larry Weatherford – University of Wyoming

 

09:00 – 09:35

Unlocking the value from Origin and Destination Revenue Management

Mukund Shankar – Emirates

  

09:35 – 10:10

Theory vs Practice?

Byron Gamble and Soufiane Ahallal – American Airlines

 

10:10 – 10:25

Coffee break

  

 

10:25 – 11:00

A Capacity Sharing Model with Movable Curtain

Darius Walczak - PROS

    

 

11:00 – 11:35

IATA NDC & ONE Order initiatives: industry opportunities for simplification and value creation

Sebastien Touraine - IATA

        

 

11:35 – 12:10

Using Automation, Simplification and People to reduce RM and passenger experience conflicts

Eric Boromisa – Avisell

           

 

 

12:10 – 1310

 

Lunch at Frankfurt Marriott Hotel

Sponsored by INFARE

  

13:10 – 13:45

 

Partnership Revenue Management : Impact of forecasting, information exchange and revenue sharing agreements

Goda Doreswamy  – Sabre

        

 

13:45 – 14:20

Accounting for price endogeneity in airline itinerary choice models

Virginie Lurkin - University of Liege

       

 

14:20 – 14:55

New perspectives on airline ticket data: A data-driven approach to cluster air travel markets

Sebastian Vock - RWTH Aachen Universit

    

 

14:55 – 15:10

Coffee break

 

 

15:10 – 15:45

 

Leg revenue management with downsell and delayed decision-making

Daniel Hopman – Emirates

            

 

15:45 – 16:20

 

Product bundling for airline customers

Ramsu Sundararajan – Sabre

          

16:20 – 16:40

 

Big Data & Predictions

Pablo Fernandez Cardoner - INFARE

      

16:40 – 17:00

 

Closing Ceremony

Tassio Carvalho & Sunny Ja – AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group