UNIQUE OPERATIONS RESEARCH TOOLS
The complex and massive data that are involved in airline profit optimization requires support by powerful tools. Schedule Consult has developed a comprehensive set of sophisticated tools for deployment in its projects. The icing on the cake are the operations research optimization tools that are unique in the industry.
We have bundled the entire management of data flows and calculations in our in-house Time Table Manager.
SCHEDULING LAB
Schedule Consult's in-house Time Table Manager contains over 150 modules, with various functions
concerning data management, reports, calculations, forecasting and operations research optimization
tools.
A great advantage is that these tools are designed on the basis of years of airline planning experience. Thus they produce practically workable results and inspiration for new creative scheduling solutions:
- In planning flights for the best Fleet Utilization
- In defining the profitability of aircraft units
- In generating, evaluating and optimizing bank structures
- In making reliable revenue forecasts and cost estimates
- In quantifying strategic questions
- In effective p lanning of ground times for better punctuality
- In comprehensive streamlining of data management ,
- In providing transparent insight in schedules for all disciplines.
- In optimizing crew pairings, rotations and rosters
- In comparing
aircraft type performances
In our projects, the final schedule recommendation is never the direct outcome of a model. Yet the tools are functional to shed new light on network optimization and preselect options from a huge range of possibilities.
Most of the tools require to be operated by specialists. Schedule Consult is not an IT company
and our offer is not software. Though it occasionally happens that we help set up clients with
methods, algorithms or even complete modules our tools are not actively marketed.
Which package of flights should be operated by each aircraft, in order to obtain the maximum fleet utilization? The Fleet Utilization Optimizer re-groups all flights and potential future flights with help of a keen Operation Research optimization routine that calculates the optimal package of flights and fleet allocations.
WEAKEST FLEET LINE MODELShows the practical relationship between fixed costs and flights. Fixed costs can only be evaluated in the production context. One flight may be profitable, but if the other flights on the aircraft perform poorly, it might not be enough. The Weakest Fleet Line model shows this context and provides the ideal inroad to optimization of the production planning.
BANK STRUCTURE GENERATOR
Generates the best options for the structure of arrival and departure banks at a hub. There
are millions of possible configurations with different numbers of banks, different timings and
other vital characteristics. The
Bank Structure Generator evaluates all these possible
configurations and provides a short list of most promising options.
OMP STRATEGY REVENUE FORECASTING
No crystal ball, but a
down to earth method to make the best revenue forecast on the basis of the
available information. Because OMP Strategy takes into account a great variety of factors, it is
supported by the
sophisticated OMP Strategy tool that helps the traffic forecaster to
manage the information and to make the choices.
COST EFFECT PROCESSOR
Cost development can be just as complex as revenue development. Most costs are not linear
with hours or ask's and follow more shock-wise trends. Our
cost effect processor creates instant insight in the effect of
any change in the schedules on company costs. This includes the effects on crew duties and airport
workload. The cost effect processor establishes a direct link between costs and the production
characteristics that drive them.
CITY PRESENCE ANALYZER
Quantifies and qualifies the commercial position in each sales region. This tool is a solid
fundament under strategic discussions. It helps to prioritize markets and to assess the type of
schedule changes that are needed to achieve the company targets.
PUNCTUALITY BUFFER TUNER
Assesses where the risks for delays and the risk of further damage to the schedule (code 93)
are largest. On the basis of statistical input, the
Punctuality Buffer Tuner shows where buffers are most
effective, how large they must be and on the other side, where buffers are a waste of precious
resources.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Schedules already involve complex data by themselves, but the data flows around
schedules concerning costs, revenues, restraints and performance are even more massive.
TTM's Schedule Centre provides the full range of data
management, disrepancy alerts, reports and crosscheckers required to safeguard schedule integrity
and to make them transparent for everybody involved.
Pairing flights into crew duties, rostering duties into crew rotations with slips and rest-times, and allocating these rotations to individual crew members, are all highly complex fields. TTM's crew centre uses keen operations research models to optimize these aspects of crew planning.
FLEET TYPE MINING
Find out which fleet type(s) are most economical on a specific network.
Fleet Type Mining compares a schedule with our fleet database and provides
feed-back on the economics of all types that have suitable capabilities. Supports fleet
negotiations also with insight in sensitivity of each choice.
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