A full review of your airline’s operations for the past year. Comprehensive analysis of all delays, cancellations, diversions. Analysis in terms of events, minutes, other relevant KPIs. Comparison to industry norms. Root cause analysis of all delays. Application of delay cost models
Review of operational issues which might cause or exacerbate disruption. Some of these include comparison to best practices of Technical Dispatch Reliability, open MEL items, spare aircraft, virtual spares, crews per aircraft, crew following/not following aircraft, turnaround times, turnaround processing, methods to handle diversions and diversion recovery, fueling for bad weather, methods of treating kickoff flights, delay recovery during the day, etc. Review of complicated hubs. Review of scheduling. Review of systems for flight following, disruption management. Develop potential recovery scenarios to minimize major hub meltdown recovery and diversion recovery. Top-to-bottom review of operations and resource allocations / resource slack as it affects disruption management.
In many medium-long-haul routes there is often a significant revenue opportunity in passenger aircraft for carrying belly cargo, even with full passenger loads. The rate per kilo and the demand is often seasonal. Many of the locations from where your cargo opportunity exists are also high-cost for fuel, indicating an opportunity for economic fuel tankering. In summary, many dynamic trade-offs.
We analyze your belly cargo business and assist you in optimizing the balance between fuel, passengers, and cargo, maximizing your revenue and optimizing your costs
The basic issues in fuel conservation are these:
An Airopsol fuel conservation audit reviews many issues. Some of these are: flight planning, alternates, reserve fuel, extra fuel, taxi-in, taxi-out, load control, catering, other items on board aircraft, use of APU, review all data tracking & control associated with fuel, check all weights, ground operations, fueling, review key maintenance issues, airplane wash & engine wash, deferring maintenance on items which affect fuel conservation – e.g. packs, anti-ice, etc. etc.
Jumpseat observation rides are performed, reviewing items such as approach procedures, idle reverse on landing, conformance of flight plans and loadsheets to actual weights and fuel, excess loading of fuel by fueler, how extra fuel requests are handled, excess arrival fuel, non-weather-related excess fuel burn, many other possible issues.
A fuel conservation audit is usually about a one week engagement.
This is Airopsol, Inc.’s flagship project – your biggest opportunity to save money. We have a special approach which was developed at American Airlines and first implemented there by Mike Irrgang. Subsequently, it has been implemented at three other airlines. In all cases, fuel savings of millions of dollars per year was achieved. In the most recent implementation, arrival fuel in a 737 fleet was reduced an average of 1,000 kgs. per flight.
The project begins with a careful review of Flight Dispatch, the flight planning process, the way alternates are selected and used, and the way extra fuel is determined and used by both dispatchers and pilots. Jumpseat rides are made, to gain a better understanding of pilot philosophy, approach to extra fuel, and approach to holding and diversions.
The Airopsol approach involves working with dispatchers, with pilots, with the pilots’ labor union, and with Flight Operations management pilots to make major modifications to the way flights are planned and operated, in particular the way alternates are assigned and used. Separate processes and procedures are developed for good weather and bad weather operations. All procedures are carefully tested. Changes are made to the Flight Operations Manual for the airline. Airopsol works with Flight Standards and with Flight Training to implement the new approach
Major projects in 20 different countries. Projects and/or operational audits of over 60 airlines.
Airopsol has a comprehensive understanding of the differences between regions and countries in the approach to airline operations: flight planning, flight dispatch, flight following, crew rules, airport operations, etc.
