Fleet Planning and Airline Business Practice

The course introduces analytical techniques for future aircraft capacity planning, featuring 'SkyChess,' a simulation where teams tackle operational, commercial, engineering and financial airline challenges.

Course Description

The course comprises a review of the stages and processes of fleet planning and analytical modelling techniques. Three teams must each develop their own fleet plan, then put their ideas into practice by managing their airline in the SkyChess simulation.

Learning outcomes include:

• Identifying stakeholders
• designing a fleet planning process
• developing aircraft selection criteria and ground rules
• the differences between airline business strategies
• making airline operational decisions that involve multiple functional activities (such as route selection, scheduling, maintenance, setting pricing, and finance)
• how to negotiate effectively
• how to deal with unexpected events.