Peter P. Belobaba holds a Master of Science in Transportation and a Ph.D. in Flight Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His doctoral dissertation entitled, “Air Travel Demand and Airline Seat Inventory Management”, is widely recognized as the first Ph.D. thesis published on the topic of airline yield management. 

Dr. Belobaba is currently a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he teaches graduate level courses on The Airline Industry and Airline Management, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  He is also a Visiting Professor of Aviation Management in IATA International Aviation MBA Program at Concordia University in Montreal.

Dr. Belobaba has been involved in research and consulting related to airline revenue management systems since 1985.  He manages an MIT research consortium funded by seven international airlines to explore the areas of airline demand forecasting, seat inventory management, network revenue optimization, and simulation of the competitive impacts of revenue management. 

Dr. Belobaba has also worked as a consultant on the evaluation, development, simulation, implementation and testing of airline revenue management systems at over 30 airlines worldwide.  He has published articles dealing with revenue management an airline completion in Operations Research, Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management and the Journal of Air Transport Management.