Punctuality is a dominant factor in customer appreciation, so airlines spend a lot of time, effort and resources to increase on-time performance.
Popular industry measures to improve punctuality are longer block times and longer turn times.
The cost of this is immense, while reality is that most of these extra buffers remain unused or are far less effective than assumed.
Of course a schedule needs redundancy in the form of buffers. However, where most investments by airlines take ela...
When optimizing fleet, most focus is on production planning.
However, fleet efficiency is also substantially influenced by the timing of fleet mutations, reserve policies, the charter availability strategy, training and the planning of maintenance checks.
Inadequate long term coordination of these needs causes temporary slacks -or shortages- in fleet capacity.
Due to the way most airlines look at optimization, these slacks mostly remain undetected -or unaddressed because they are per...
Over the years we've seen major efficiency factors pop up over and over again that are apparently not on everyone's radar screen.
Many of them are the result of structural sub-optimization or blind spots in profitability reporting. Check out our Top 5 or Hidden Inefficiencies!
http://www.scheduleconsult.com/sc/body/HiddenInefficiencies.html
An important reason why we find new profit improvements is our calculation method. It’s specifically developed for airline networks and quite different from what most airlines use. As a result, it provides very refreshing angles.
http://www.scheduleconsult.com/sc/body/ProfitScreening.html
