FLEET UTILIZATION OPTIMIZER

Which flights should be operated by each aircraft in order to obtain the maximum fleet utilization?

The Fleet Utilization Optimizer re-schedules all flights with help of a keen Operation Research optimization routine. It calculates the optimal combination of flights into fleet rotations. It can be programmed either to achieve a maximal fleet utilization or to maximize profits.

This is an ideal crosscheck for the running schedule. It checks whether the right flights are combined in fleet rotations and produces new and better fleet rotations. It can also make the best selection from potential future flights. Last but not least, it handles fleet type allocations.

The Fleet Utilization Optimizer runs on an Operations Research LP algorithm. The benefit of this algorithm is that it can exclude the possibility that any better solution can be found. In other words, this tool guarantees to find the fleet rotations with the maximum achievable fleet utilization.

Fleet Utilization Optimizer benefits the following types of airlines:

• Low Cost Carriers: Fleet rotations over multiple stations that have developed sequentially in several stages of growth can be evaluated and re-arranged swiftly with this tool. It ensures minimum loss of commercially operable fleet time and thus enables to plan extra flights with the same fleet.

• Charter airlines: This tool is the ideal support in the negotiations on seasonal series. It can optimize on utilization, but it can also optimize on profit margin of potential flights, even weighing the length of the series. Just put in all possible flights and it will pick the best package.

• Cargo airlines: Run the tool on the total weekly production and find the ideal timings for the flights to enable extra flights in the same fleet.  In this case the Fleet Optimizer is best to be runned in combination with the Punctuality Buffer Planner.