We consider the NP-hard problem of optimizing the sequence and times of aircraft
landings under necessary constraints. It is impossible to obtain an exact solution of the problem
online owing to the large amount of calculations. An integrated approach is proposed to
produce an approximate solution: a genetic algorithm is applied at the first stage to obtain
an initial solution; this algorithm is then improved based on a heuristic algorithm. The approach
proposed permits obtaining optimal or nearly optimal solutions in reasonable time. To
study the algorithms developed, a simulation software tool was used. Extensive computational
experiments have confirmed the efficiency of the approach.