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 :P
thats actually a good method, thanks for that!
I do this a lot, especially in my short haul to build a realistic schedule. Is pretty useful :)
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.
Would anybody mind explaining to a noob why you would want to schedule an 8-hour turnaround? :-[
So that you can have an early morning flight (Such as 6-8am) from an airport other than your home base.
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.
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?
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
Quote from: Branmuffin on April 21, 2009, 02:57:46 AM
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.