ABOUT SCHEDULES

Schedules are the heart of an airlines production planning. Schedules define the commercial earning power of an airline. They set departure times, transfer times, frequencies, cargo capacities and seat availability.

The timetable is the number one decision factor for customers. Its punctual operation is the number one satisfaction factor. On the longer run, schedules also have important influence on the market position and the effectiveness of sales efforts.

COST DRIVERS
Schedules also determine main cost drivers like number of hours, landings, crew demand, airport workloads, fleet rotations and resource deployment. 

Thus schedules affect the bottom-lines' main ingredients: load-factors, yields and costs. This turns schedules into powerful competitive tools. In our experience, planning affects up to 90% of company costs and 100% of network revenues.

A change in the schedules can significantly change these levels, which makes scheduling a sensitive success factor.

THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE
The dynamics of the market imply that schedules are never fully optimal and efforts for further improvement must be relentless.

However, the complexity of schedules implies that one change almost always triggers a cascade of other changes. This creates a threshold for fundamental changes.

The longer such changes are postponed, the larger the need will be. 

FRESH IMPULSE
Every planning process needs a fresh impulse every now and then and a critical network review is no luxury.

Agreeing about the need for change is one hurdle, to agree about the nature of the change is a second.

Schedule Consult is specialized in addressing such issues. Check our record of good results and see for yourself that we are the ideal partner to overcome thresholds for change with you.