Jeopolitik konumun operasyonel maliyet ve filo yönetimine etkisi

The airline industry is one of the industries where there is most impact of costs on profitability. Fleet management and location selection are important in terms of operational costs in the airline industry, which is affected by economic and competitive conditions due to its nature. Airline companies that make a successful fleet management and location selection can reduce their operational costs and use their fleet in the most optimum way. In this study, the effect of location selection on airline fleet management and operational costs was examined. In this context, flight scenarios were prepared from 8 centers, 10 different hubs and 5 different aircraft. These scenarios prepared were evaluated with TOPSIS, one of the multi-criteria decision making methods. In the multi-criteria decision-making method, the alternatives are evaluated according to the criteria determined. In the study, alternatives are flights, and the criteria are operational cost items. Weighting was made according to the average costs in the industry. In addition, in order to fully measure the impact of location on operational cost, the location index was developed with the average of GDP, HDI and SDI values of the countries where the hubs are located, and it was enabled to affect the decision-making by 30%. According to the results of the research, it has been observed that the operational costs of the airports to be established in locations such as Istanbul, London and Delhi are lower and the fleet management is more optimum. The most important reason for this is that flights from these regions to many centers in Europe are easy and less costly. Findings obtained from the research provide information for sector managers and researchers.