AD OPT Operations Research Department

The ultimate goal of the AD OPT Operations Research Department is to find optimal solutions to the airline industry's complex problems. The AD OPT vision is to simplify processes and improve productivity and cost-effectiveness while enhancing crew member satisfaction.

The operations research team

The AD OPT Operations Research Department employs operations research professionals with masters' degrees and PhDs with the goal of conducting short-term and medium-term research projects. Many of these specialists have been with AD OPT since its inception and have gained substantial airline-related expertise.

The team's main responsibilities include:

• Design of new applications and new optimization models
• Improvement of existing application models and features
• Continuous work on the AD OPT optimization engine

GERAD research partner

Our original parent company, AD OPT Technologies, was founded in 1987 by research professors of GERAD, an internationally renowned operations research group specializing in decision analysis. This relationship has been maintained throughout the years and resulted in many successful projects.

The GERAD research center is comprised of professors, associates, and students who work on technology that allows our products to tackle larger, more complex problems. This includes specialized algorithms that solve the master problem in our column generation tool and new technology to improve the generation of integer solutions.