I have an decent sized airline based out of Abu Dhabi on Yeager where I operate a number of 787s on long haul routes. I have always scheduled my long hauls on US routes to depart Monday, Wednesday, and Friday back to back Saturday, and then putting medium haul flights in between like this.
(This is on a 787-8 and the maintainance ratio is 121.8%)
I know that the alternative method is to assign multiple aircraft to fly on one flight number which pushes the frequency up to 7 flights per week. I have seen airlines use both methods, and I am wondering what your opinions are on the matter.
Copy the schedule with a 24h offset and you’re at 6/7.
But I cannot really see any structure in your schedule to be honest. Your arrivals/departures seem to be in no order but randomly spread over the day as they come.
I’d expect your departure to CMB 75mins after your arrival from IAD to build a useful connection for example. With all other schedules following the same structure.
But for a temp server this might be not that important as it ends before things around scheduling get interesting.
What do you mean with offset?
If you have longhaul schedule, the easiest way is to use 7 planes and add all flights to one plane for Monday, next plane for Tuesday and so on.
A simple copy with offset (hours, while days is simple) would be on my wishlist.
Standard scheduling is like (in case someone is not aware):
Open “Scheduling”, select your route - simply type “AUHIAD” into your browser (…/scheduling/AUHIAD )
Select STM 326 (you can see the days already assigned) -> select your desired airframe -> tick the desired days and apply. Do the same for the opposite direction.
