Determination of Ideal Aircraft Utilizing Analytical Decision-Making Tools

Abstract

The critical and strategic position of the aviation industry has increased the interest in research studies on aviation topics. Particularly, determining the ideal preferences for aircraft is a complete decision problem because it contains many complex and qualitative/quantitative elements. The purpose of this study is to highlight the missing points by presenting a more comprehensive analysis for airline companies to choose the ideal aircraft model by using analytical models from a holistic perspective. Some technical, economic, and environmental criteria should be considered to identify the most proper aircraft. The selection of the most suitable aircraft in line with the characteristics determined as a result of the opinions received from aviation experts and extensive literature research is evaluated with recently developed multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods such as complex proportional assessment (COPRAS), emergency descent arrest systems (EDAS), and weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS), then sensitivity analysis is applied to demonstrate the reliability of the methods after comparing the results obtained with each other.