Manager Schedule Planning

The Manager Schedule Planning is responsible for producing and delivering a commercially and operationally optimized schedule across all operations, ensuring regulatory compliance with respect to schedule change activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, evaluate, implement, track and report schedule needs for: operations, crew scheduling, maintenance planning, revenue management and network planning.
• Develop and deploy short and long-term flight schedule (3 days - 1 year); including seasonal adjustments and operating plans.
• Develop long-term plan to assist in the evaluation of future fleet requirement and network expansion.
• Manage slot portfolio, co-ordinate with respective authorities for submissions and approvals.
• Ensure schedule is filed and maintained with different reservation systems.
• Maintain schedule integrity along with high aircraft utilization.
• Continuously optimize the schedule to cater for demand across the network, analyse connectivity of the current network to improve overall network load factor.
• Run scenario-based analysis in coordination with Network planning manager and revenue management to improve flight times.
• Identify tactical deployment of aircraft for short term in liaison with operations and provide input to service recovery situation.
• Participate in maintenance program and proactively incorporate all maintenance program requirements in the schedule well in advance.
• Identify and communicate opportunities with relevant stakeholders increasing asset utilisation.
• Continuously evolve schedule to improve AC utilization.
• Continuously Improve reducing downtime between flights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in aviation discipline, engineering, or related field
• Minimum +5 Years of work experience in airline scheduling including min +2 years of work experience on Airflite/Netline/Oasis/Zulu
• Analytical skills.
• Slot portfolio management.
• MS Tools.
• Good team player.
• Details-oriented.