Aviation or air transportation refers to the activities surrounding mechanical flights in the airlines and the aircraft industries. In this paper, we present a recent literature survey on aviation management. The literature review is classified into the following main categories: Airline Capacity Analysis; Air Traffic Flow Management; Airline Fleet Assignment; Tail Assignment with Aircraft Maintenance Routing; Airline Crew Pairing; Airline Recovery and Rescheduling; Airline Revenue Management; Collaborative Decision Making; Aircraft Scheduling. This classification aims to motivate the researchers and practitioners in aviation management to develop more applicable, realistic and wide-ranging optimization methodologies for meeting the current...