Tech problem

[jamboy2378]

Delays and cancellations are killing me! I'm assuming that this (other than offering no inflight service) is damaging my image and somehow affecting loads of other things about my airline as my image is dropping fast in so early a stage.

I have more tech staff and gound handlers than it calls for and I've advertised all the routes....is this some kind of 'siesta' thing Sami has built into airlines in Mexico?

Can somone take a peek at my airline and offer suggestions?

Greatly appreciated!

[swiftus27]

No, no one can peek because mentoring is on the drawing board.

I bet you are not putting enough time between your flights.  If it take 70 minutes to get that ~1% dont only do it for that route.  Make sure you have 70 minutes before the next plane leaves.

An example of my scheduling is below:

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[Ilyushin]

No, no one can peek because mentoring is on the drawing board.

I bet you are not putting enough time between your flights.  If it take 70 minutes to get that ~1% dont only do it for that route.  Make sure you have 70 minutes before the next plane leaves.

An example of my scheduling is below:

The title is 'Tech problem' so his delays and cancellations are most likely due to Technical problems and not too short turn-arounds.

[jamboy2378]

Yes, the delays are due to 60% 'technical' issues. 14% of my flights have even been cancelled due to 'technical' issues. On another note: When scheduling and the last flight says, "you can takeoff again at....', well thats when I do. Is that wrong? Should I pad that take off? Should I import foreign labor?

[slither360]

C check all planes with condition between 70-80%, and D check anything less than that. Once the condition is above 80%, you shouldn't have to deal with this.

And yes. For turnarounds, make sure that it is 1% chance of delay both at the other destination AND at your base (same amount of time, although it doesn't tell you this anywhere)

[Ilyushin]

Yes, the delays are due to 60% 'technical' issues. 14% of my flights have even been cancelled due to 'technical' issues. On another note: When scheduling and the last flight says, "you can takeoff again at....', well thats when I do. Is that wrong? Should I pad that take off? Should I import foreign labor?

Yes, that's Swiftus his point. The time given at 'Can take off again at xx' is the MINIMUM turn-around time required for that aircraft. If your aircraft has a minimum of 35 minutes, to get a 1% chance of delay, you need to extend it to 55 minutes. So, to decrease delays and cancellations, you should take-off again when the time on the ground equals 55 minutes (so: arrival - wait 55 mins - take-off). You should ignore the 'can take off again at...' and should look at your arrival time and add 55 minutes to that time.

Hope I am clear enough

[jamboy2378]

Thanks all. I was cheating and working on a 17% chance....go figure. I'll play around with the skeds and wait for the C checks to fix the planes. Thanks again

[ukatlantic]

C check all planes with condition between 70-80%, and D check anything less than that.

The above is poor advice.....  

I would suggest this is what you  do....If a C check isn't required (ie it says you have 6.7 months until next C Check keep the a/c operating and definately do not do an expensive D Check you'll lose the aircraft in engineering for 80 days+ and it will incur millions of $ in cost and lease payment for an aircraft in maintenance.

If aircraft condition is low (ie below 80%) you can put it in for EXTRA maintenance and then pay a certain cost to bring it's condition up to a respectable level (I'd say 85% is good but if you can afford to get it to betwenn 90 and 100% all the better - hope this helps  

[slither360]

No, C check is better because it is usually MUCH cheaper, and you don't have to do it for an entire year afterwards

[ukatlantic]

No, C check is better because it is usually MUCH cheaper, and you don't have to do it for an entire year afterwards

Poor advice for a new fledgling airline and certainly not required    EXTRA engineering give's you the option of varying costs to bring an aircraft up to a respectable level and does NOT work out more expensive than a C Check unless condition is so poor of an aircraft in which case then you would have been better off not leasing that aircraft in the first place.

[alexgv1]

Extra checks include C/D checks if the percentage condition increase is large enough anyway...

[swiftus27]

I'd never do a C Check unless I had to.

[Powi]

If canceling the lease is cheaper than repairing/C/D-checking and other similar used aircraft are available, ditch the plane

[slither360]

Assuming there is availability of a better plane (which I would think not, or the bad plane wouldn't have been chosen in the first place)

[psw231]

  Remember to go to the very bottom of settings in dashboard and set the 1% turn times for each ac type so that in future you don't need to do it aech time.