Is it the minimum time your plane needs to be at an airport before it can take off again?
Please help! [].[]
It's the Time your Passengers need after they arrived on (your) Airport until they can connect to another flight eg. to your IL partner .... so it's the time they spend on the airport between flights .
It's the Time your Passengers need after they arrived on (your) Airport until they can connect to another flight eg. to your IL partner .... so it's the time they spend on the airport between flights .
So say I take off from Cairo (at 00:45) heading to Athens, I arrive there at 3:00, what time should I leave Athens to come back to Cairo?
When you schedule a flight you can see at what time you are arriving in Athens ... as you said you arrive at 0300 and below that you see the time when you are ready for departure again. If it is 1 hrs later you can depart at 0400 provided the slot is available. the turn around time is already included in the schedule so just depart shortly after.
Hi Lanroe,
What time you can have a return flight is dependant on the aircraft type and the airport (and has nothing to with the minimum transfer time).
If you land in Athens with a Dash 8 (regional turboprop) then it may take 30 minutes to complete a turnaround and your aircraft can return to Cairo, if you use a 747 this will likely be around 2 hours 30.
The system will automatically not let you schedule within the turnaround time. If you look when you are in the flight planning stage there is a line "arrival" which is your arrival time (say 03:00) then a ready for departure (could be 03:45 etc.) This is the earliest your flight can depart back to Cairo.
Minimum transfer time refers to passenger transfering to another flight. Say you have an interline partner running Athens to Frankfurt. If a passenger wanted to fly CAI-ATH-FRA they could do so IF they have time to transfer. So if your flight arrives at 03:00, the minimum transfer time is 01:15 in ATH, therefore you interlining partners flight would have to depart at 04:15 or later for your passenger to make a transfer
Oh!!! So the turn around is Automatic! (it will put a cross if it cant turn around at that time?)
If so I get it!! And transfer flights only happen if u have interline partners!?
IF so thanks guys :)
Transfers can happen internally and externally. Using your example if aircraft 1 arrives back at Cairo at 6, and you have aircraft 2 going to DXB at 8, a passenger could book at ticket ATH-CAI-DXB
Oh get it now :). One more thing: can a plane empty its passengers and then reload it in 1 min or 2?
In relation to minimum transfer time and transfers it can be assumed that the time to offload passengers is included within the minimum transfrer time
So it will automatically put the available time to take off again?
The system permits my Dash 8 to depart the next minute. How is this possible
1 Time is the Turn around time of the Airplane, that is already included in the scheduling function and look, like you said you can depart the next Minute. But it has nothing to do with the minimum transfer time that is the topic in this post here. Minimum transfer time is that passengers who arrived with your flight now need this minimum transfer time to go to a new depature gate and wait for their connecting flight.
Ok thanks :)