Timothy L. Jacobs,
Ph.D., P.E.
American Airlines
Tim Jacobs currently oversees the revenue management of
American Airline’s Miami and St. Louis operations. In addition, he is involved in the
development and implementation of schedule optimization models for American
Airlines. His work focuses on the application and solution of large scale
nonlinear integer optimization problems for scheduling and revenue management.
At American Airlines, his work focuses on strategic and schedule planning,
revenue management solutions and the integration of scheduling, RM and pricing
decisions. Dr. Jacobs is responsible for the implementation of O&D FAM at
AA and American Eagle and the implementation of an
O&D-based Demand Driven Dispatch (D3) process at American Eagle. Prior to
joining AA in 2000, Jacobs was a member of Sabre’s
research and flight scheduling groups. While at Sabre,
he led the development of several software products and techniques like Sabre’s patented O&D Fleet Assignment Model (O&D
FAM) currently used by several airlines throughout the world. Dr. Jacobs is an active member of INFORMS and
AGIFORS (Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research
Societies). As an AGIFORS council
member, he has served as President, Past President and Technical Director. Dr. Jacobs has a Ph.D. from