Hi All,
I am looking for a bit of advise, I recently set up my first flights from my Hub of Dublin to Boston and New York, both are doing fine and are full.
Of course because of lenght of flight, I only have DUB - BOS and back, which gives it maintenance ratio of over 400% which I though it too much and would like to do something about it. I tried to add another flight to AMS but because of the seating configuration of the plane it never would be profitable.
So my question really is, how do you guys deal with this? Do you have 1 plane per each transatlantic flight, how do you configure the schedule to get maximum effeciency?
Any tips or tricks are welcome.
Thanks,
As always: It depends on the individual situation.
I. Using one aircraft and establishing efficiency through a short leg as described can be viable, as long as the longhaul leg ist profitable enough and the short leg contributes at least some return. The advantage is a low number of flightnumbers, a regular flight plan (for building waves) and sometimes a faster on-flight connection.
II. You can built efficiency through setting a more narrow flight plan and spread it over different aircrafts. Thus you need probably some more demand, but if feasible, you can get a regular flightplan again. If possible, I prefer a flightplan that can be performed by 2 aircrafts (i.e. a 36 turnaround) and than decide for the 7th day individually. But this is rather for longer routes than DUB-BOS.
III. You can set up one efficient flightplan, then loosing the opportunity to build waves. Which is not necessarily wrong, but probably not the best option.