You Can Do RONs from Outstations (sort of)

[ekaneti]

Well I figured out how I can make aircraft RON at outstations. Fly into the outstation late at night and schedule an 8 hour turn. Only problem is you can only do it 6 days per week as the aircraft needs to be home for A check. But it is better than nothing

[Dazwalsh]

thats actually a good method, thanks for that!

[NorgeFly]

I do this a lot, especially in my short haul to build a realistic schedule. Is pretty useful

[Sami]

outstation A checks have been previously requested.. (btw.)

And the long turnarounds are made JUST for this purpose, so that you can sleep the plane there too.

[Branmuffin]

Would anybody mind explaining to a noob why you would want to schedule an 8-hour turnaround? 

[Meraki]

So that you can have an early morning flight (Such as 6-8am) from an airport other than your home base.

[Sami]

And that's because the flight schedules also affect the pax demand you get. Of course if much demand and no competition you can fly the night flights too.

[Branmuffin]

So it actually does make a positive difference (if you are competing with another airline on the same route, same days) if you schedule your flight a few hours ahead or behind your competitor's?

[NicholasB]

Hi,

So how do we go about scheduling Maintanance at an airport other than our home base?

I also tried to schedule additional A checks for an aircraft at my home base and the progrma just simply transfered the A check date/time to another day. It seems i cant do additional maintanence unless i take the aircraft out of service to complete 100% condition. As you would  all agree as a start up airline this would be suicide.

Any advice?

NicholasB

[thedr2]

So it actually does make a positive difference (if you are competing with another airline on the same route, same days) if you schedule your flight a few hours ahead or behind your competitor's?

Not like that so much, but you will experience higher loads in the mornings and evenings, and very low loads late at night.