You can only do as much as you can afford. This makes it easier to mix the flights if you are on a 168-hours schedule with different destinations. Usually, cities within one country have similar passenger numbers. Nevertheless, that approach is very time consuming and you always have some destinations, which will be over- or under-served. Maybe just an impression, but these flights earn a lot (fewer airport fees). We own a few Airbus 340-500 and use them on 168-hours matching 5-days long-haul trips. Keep in mind that it works best within the same country, since most likely the ratio between the passenger types remain the same. If there isn’t a perfect match, then leave a slightly higher number for cargo, since as previously mentioned, I have the impression than cargo increases faster than passengers (especially, when you allocate workforce). You might want to keep the app airlines manager open to see which jet configuration comes closest. Afterwards you play around with the number of planes required. You add in a table the number of economy-, business- and first-class passengers besides the cargo. You find them mostly in the same region or even better in the same country. We usually use a simple Excel spreadsheet to plan 168-hours week trips and select seven similar destinations.

You can quickly discover flight distances, flight times and other information such as the category availability: Destination Finder. It is recommended to use this source provided by Playrion for Airlines Manager. This way, we achieve almost 2 billion in revenues by covering only three countries. For each country, 100+ aircraft can be ordered in the same configuration. For instance, we fly from ICN to Europe (France and Spain) and the USA.

2200 – 2400 hours Trips At a later stage, we started selecting only one country, but flying to all available airports.

The tricky part is to schedule the planes in such a way that the daily demand decreases linear, meaning that the demand remains on each day the same. However, we often schedule long-distance flight (35h), meaning that we combine them to make even weekly schedules. Therefore a Boeing 747-400ERF carrying just cargo can be used in parallel on a 12h trip. 12h and 24h respectively 24h combinations are simple aircraft uses, whereby the longer the route, the more income and less Airport cost.

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