Option-based dynamic pricing on airline

Hui Li, Lun Ran*, Jin Lin Li

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    Abstract

    Dynamic pricing has been one of the major research areas of revenue management. This paper provided a novel dynamic pricing method based on option and showed how an airline may be considered as the holder of a financial option on tickets. In a fully competitive market, a partial differential equation model was used to describe the financial aspects of the price of tickets and the partial differential equations were established for the call and put option price. Based on the new method, the tickets' price has been decided using finite difference method; the amount of tickets sold has been calculated using an integral linear programming. Such a pricing model was much better than the method that didn't take option into consideration.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
    Pages1541-1546
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008 - Beijing, China
    Duration: 12 Oct 200815 Oct 2008

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
    Volume2

    Conference

    Conference2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityBeijing
    Period12/10/0815/10/08

    Keywords

    • Airline
    • Dynamic pricing
    • Integral linear programming
    • Option
    • Revenue managementy

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