Paper Title
System Simulation Analysis for Aircraft Routing Problem of Low Cost Carriers: A Case of Tigerair Taiwan

Abstract
Global low cost carriers (LCCs)experienced a rapid growth during this decade.Shares of worldwide seats capacity provided by LCCs raised from 15.7%to 28.7%from 2006 to 2017.Based on the intensive flight operations, on-time performance (OTP) became a key factor for LCCs to compete with other airlines. This study aimsto build a system simulation model to analyze the tail assignment principles for the Tigerair Taiwan (IATA code: IT), the sole Taiwanese LCC. Then, this study proposed some algorithms, including first-in-first-out (FIFO), last-in-first-out (LIFO), partial-fix FIFO (PFIFO) and partial-fix LIFO (PLIFO), to evaluatethe possible improvement for its delay and OPT. The test data, including all flights of Tigerair Taiwanin 2018 retrieved from the flightdata24 website,indeed exits inherent partial fixed flight strings. As the simulation results with ARENA, FIFO, LIFO and PLIFO algorithms revealdelay improvementwith significantly statistical difference than the practical assignment. However, the PFIFO algorithm seem not to have the same effects. Keywords - System Simulation, Aircraft Routing Problem, Low-Cost Carrier (LCC), On-time Performance (OTP).