Axel Parmentier's thesis discuss about application in some airline operations problems.
You didn't really ask for it, but for reference about VRP related problem, see Feillet (2010) and Pessoa et al. (2019)
Reference:
Parmentier, Axel. “Quelques Algorithmes pour des problèmes de plus court chemin et d’opérations aériennes,“Algorithms for shortest path and airline problems.” November 10Université Paris-Est, 2016. (in english despite the title)
Feillet, Dominique. “A Tutorial on Column Generation and Branch-and-Price for Vehicle Routing Problems.” 4OR 8, no. 4 (December 2010): 407–24.
Pessoa, Artur, Ruslan Sadykov, Eduardo Uchoa, and François Vanderbeck. “A Generic Exact Solver for Vehicle Routing and Related Problems.” In Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, edited by Andrea Lodi and Viswanath Nagarajan, 11480:354–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.