

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.
