The Operating Report
The Reports tab (Alt+P, or type REPORT) shows how efficiently your
operation runs: what it costs against the work it does. In Flight Dispatch you don’t have a bank
balance to spend; the airline judges its duty manager by these figures. Keep every aircraft flying,
the most expensive ones above all.
Choose the period with ← and →: the last 24 hours, 7 days or 28 days, or everything since the company started. Money is in US dollars.
The figures
- Utilisation
- Block hours a day on scheduled services, for each aircraft in service: the figure airlines watch most. A short-haul aircraft working hard flies 10 to 12; a long-haul one, 14 or more.
- Time
- An aircraft’s time in service goes to flying, to the hangar, or to sitting idle on the ground with nothing to do. Turnarounds count as idle, so short ones help. Idle over half is shown in orange.
- Costs
- The lease runs from signing to its end, flying or not. Each flight’s fuel comes from the type’s fuel burn, the engine fitted and the block time. Fees are landing fees, higher at big airports, for big aircraft, and in the morning and evening peaks and at night, by the airport’s local time. Maintenance is the hangar visits and engine overhauls finished. Passengers, when flights have been cancelled, is the fares refunded and the seats bought on other airlines: see Flights and passengers. It includes base salaries, training and notice pay for your people, and the block hour line shows what they come to for each hour flown.
- Per block hour
- Everything, against the hours of scheduled service flown. Positioning flights cost fuel and fees but count as no work.
- Idle time cost
- The part of the lease that paid for time on the ground with nothing to do.
- Brief
- How Network Planning’s brief stands: the airports the timetable serves as it asks, and when it first served them all. See Faxes and briefs.
Each aircraft
The table gives the same figures for each aircraft; ↑ ↓ choose one, and its flights landed in the period are listed below with what each cost. Wider than the screen, Alt ← → scroll the columns.
There’s no target to meet yet: for now the figures are there to improve on. Reviews from the airline are on the way.