Monday, December 15, 2025

[DMANET] Call for sessions on Passenger Air Transportation - IFORS 2026

Dear colleague,

We are happy to announce that there will be a stream about Passenger Air Transportation: Airlines and Airports at the 24th IFORS in Vienna in 2026.

In this stream we focus on OR techniques for challenges in the following (or related) areas:

Fleet assignment, routing and scheduling

Crew scheduling and crew pairing/rostering

Airport operations, ground handling

Runway scheduling, air traffic management

Disruption management and recovery

Maintenance planning

Network design

Revenue management

We cordially invite you to organize a session in this stream. A session has a length of one and a half hour and typically consist of three or four talks. Could you let us know before February 1, 2026, if you are interested in organizing a session?

We are also open to receiving individual talks for these streams The submission of abstracts has opened on December 1, 2025, and closes on March 15, 2026. If you are interested in organizing a session or in presenting a talk, please contact us. We can provide you with a submission code to make sure that the talk lands in the right place.

More information on IFORS 2026 can be found below:

Vienna, Austria, July 12 - 17, 2026, https://ifors2026.at/home/

Please forward this mail to any colleagues who might be interested. Feel free to reach out to us in case you have any questions.

Best regards,


Stream chairs: Rainer Kolisch (rainer.kolisch@tum.de) and Marjan van den Akker (j.m.vandenakker@uu.nl)

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