FLEET PLANNING AND FLIGHT SCHEDULING

Context

The airlines environment is more and more exposed to fierce competition.

With success, the LCCs take more and more market shares and have succeeded to maximize their fleet utilization by multiplying frequencies.

Historically, traditional airlines rather tried to adapt plane type to each route characteristic. Consequently, their fleet is rather disparate with a too important number of aircraft types.

Your objectives

To resist, you wish to rationalize your flight scheduling, to decrease the aircraft types number, to multiply frequencies, and to organize your network around a hub.

Our offer

Our experts will help you to precise your airline strategic positioning  according to its environment (market, competition).

They will review the selection of routes operated or to be operated and will determine the optimum number of  frequencies.

Whilst reducing the number of aircraft types they will deduce the optimum aircraft size.

They will carry out network optimization using iterative method, maximizing aircraft utilization,  with competitive schedules.

They will establish flight scheduling economical valuation, and will issue three years projected operational accounts.

Our know-how and resources

Air France Consulting is a subsidiary of Air France group. Our independent structure is specialized in management and engineering of air transport.

Our experts took part in processes evaluation in place at many airlines, and in the creation of this type of approach.

Our experts took part successfully in the recasting of many airlines flight scheduling  and the reorganization of their fleet.

Their professional experiment is at your service.