Hey guys! I have a schedule for my Boeing 737-800 BGW the flight schedule is as followed:
Monday
(RUH-DXB) - (DXB-MED)x4 In between I have four flights back and forth Dubai and Medina…then 3 more flights between Dubai and Riyadh. At the end of Monday the plane lands at Riyadh…[font=times new roman’, times, serif]I’ve attached a picture of my flight plan to explain my situation a bit more clearer.The problem I’m having right now is that I don’t have a booked flight to Dubai from Riyadh…instead I have all the flights from Dubai to Medina and back, all booked. So my plane is going to fly to Dubai from Riyadh with ZERO passengers, to fly passengers from Dubai to Medina…How can I fix the problem? Or am I doing something that the scheduler can not achieve…PLS HELP! URGENT [/font][font=times new roman’, times, serif]As you can see from the booked flights (RUH-DXB) and (DXB-MED), the flights from DXB-MED leaves before the RUH-DXB…which means that the plane has to go to dxb, finish the flight then back to ruh…that will waste a lot of money…so I just don’t understand whats happening…and how I can fix this problem…[/font]
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[font=times new roman’, times, serif]Best regards,[/font]
[font=times new roman’, times, serif]Nick [/font]
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have you given it 24 hours to pass a demand calculation? times for demand calculation can be found on the airport page. if you don’t know what I am referring to, please use the search bar. thank you.
Your flights are activated with 3 days delay. There might be a little waiting before people starts buying tickets. You wont fly before feb 9th, on a very busy route.
Looking at your schedule, I can’t help but wonder what the condition of your aircraft is from being in the air for 41 hours in a row on Mon n Tues as well as Sat n Sun. I also would imagine that your passengers are probably scoring solid red for condition in the flight rating tab. You are also assuming that every passenger that books flights only go’s from A-B because you are not allowing any time for transfers from your other flights, with the exception #741. There is absolutely no point trying to run a maintenance ratio at or near 100% if you are not filling the plane. Popular opinion around here seems to be that “your losing money with the plane on the ground.” So I ask, does an empty plane lose more money on the ground or in the air? You will have the answer very soon if you do not adjust your schedules.
First thing you need to do is, drop flights 751,752, 753 and 754. Then spread out that schedule to allow for maintenance in between flights, preferably at your hub. This will improve the condition and flight rating as well as provide time to allow for transfers.
Edit to add: Can anyone provide me a real life example of an airline that runs 14 cycles in 41 hours with out kicking the tires at least once?
I got out the calculator and started crunching numbers to provide an example.
I have an MD-90 with a configuration of 109/34/0 and a maintenance ratio of 236.4%. It runs the same 4 flights daily, 7 days a week and have a minimum of 95% booked. The two flights leaving my hub have an average booking from own/ext feeders of 84% and the return flights are at 60% to own/ext feeders. This aircraft has a total profit of AS$101,737 PER DAY.
I have an MD-82 with a config of 131/34/0 and a maintenance ratio of 116.2%. It runs the same 8 flights daily, 7 days a week and all flights have been at 100% booked. This aircraft only picks up total of 20 passengers on average from feeders per day after maintenance and roughly 30% to feeders on the return flights. Total profit for this aircraft is AS$101,550 per day.
Now this comparison is kinda apples to oranges considering the MD-90 is flying a longer route and is 7 years younger then the the MD-82, but the MD-82 carry’s more people with a higher frequency. Unfortunately we can’t determine the exact flight the transfers come from, but I think it is safe to say that if I increased the flights on the MD-90, wrongly assuming that I will make more money by getting closer to 100% maintenance ratio and eliminate the transfer times, I would lose bookings on the existing flights, the flights that are feeding it and my interlining partner would see a reduction too.
My advice to the OP (and any new player) is to focus on coordinating your flights and not so much on a near 100% maintenance ratio,