Airlines General + CDM
Airlines Planning
Economics
Airport
Mix
100

Which network types exist?

Point-to-point and hub-and-spoke

100

Name all maintenance types. (6)

Visual inspection

overnight maintenance

A-D check

100

Define RPK, ASK, yield and cabin factor.

RPK - how many times a paying passenger was transported over a kilometre

ASK - how many times an airline seat was transported over a kilometre

yield - income per pax kilometre

cabin factor ~ ratio of number of seats occupied

100

Which are the two parts of an airport?

Landside and airside

100

Name five activities during the turn-around process

For example: luggage handling, push-back, refueling, maintenance, cleaning

200

Which other players/actors impact airline management? (7)

Airports, government, alliances, suppliers, unions, competitors, customers

200

Name the alternatives to recover a flight schedule w.r.t. a/c. (4)

Delay, cancel, swap, positioning

200

Name three properties of an airline's product.

Immaterial, perishable, cannot be stored

200

Name the two principal components of the aviation infrastructure.

Airports, ATM

200

What is a time bank?

  • Consists of a set of flight arrivals followed by a set of departures
  • Allows for several connection possibilities during a short period of time
300

What entails A-CDM?

- Joined decision-making

– Stakeholders in the air traffic system should share relevant information with each other

– Stakeholder can influence decision of another stakeholder that influences own activity

300

What are the goals with flight schedule planning? (3)

High cabin factor, no pax spill, robustness

300

Define the operating profit

op. profit =RPK * yield + ASK * unit cost

300

What is a CTOT?

When predicted demand exceeds capacity in an area, NMOC regulates:

  •  A flight can pass through several regulations with can result in several CTOT.
  •  The regulation that requires latest take-off time is the Most Penalising Regulation (MPR)
  •  CTOT for flight determined by MPR
300

Name conditions for yield management/RM. (3)

- Fixed amount of resources available for sale

- Resources sold are perishable 

- Different customers are willing to pay a different price for using the same amount of resources

400

Explain substitution on cancellation.

With Substitution on Cancellation airline can keep the slot that gets freed by a cancelled flight, given they intend to use it. Can give the slot to another of their flights.

400

The problem of assigning a/c to all flight legs is split into two consecutive problems, which? What does each of these entail?ß

Fleet Assignment (assign flight legs to subfleets)

Aircraft Routing (per subfleet: determine the actual route for each aircraft)

400

What is pricing, what is RM?

Pricing = process of determining fare levels, along with various service amenities and restrictions, for a set of fare products in an origin-destination market

Revenue management = subsequent process of determining how many seats to make available at each fare level

400

Describe slot allocation process at a level-3 airport

  • Historic precedence (historic precedence applies to a series of slots that was operated at least 80% of the time during the period allocated in the previous equivalent season) - “grandfathered” slot
  •  Slot pool: Once historic slots and changes to historic slots have been allocated, the coordinator will establish a slot pool, including any newly created slots. Slots available in the pool are allocated to airlines requesting a slot.
  •  New entrants: 50% of the slots contained in the pool at initial slot allocation must be allocated to new entrants, unless requests by new entrants are less than 50%. But: airline qualifies as new entrant as long as it does not hold more than four slots in a day, after receiving any new slots from the slot pool (not enough to establish a significant position at major airport).
  •  Year round service:  Within each category a request to extend an existing operation to operate on a year round basis should have priority over a new slot request. 
400

Another jeopardy-type question:

Charging different prices for products with different quality of service characteristics and therefore different costs of production.

What is product differentiation?

500

Explain dichotomy of demand and supply

Demand on level of O-D markets, airline offer flight legs. Hence, these are on different levels, which yield inherent imcomparability.

500

Name the three variants for crew assignment

Bidline, rostering, preferential bidding

500

Acutal jeopardy-type question:

Charging different prices for the same (or very similar) product that have the same costs of productions, based solely on different consumers’ WTP. 

What is price discrimination?

500

Name the five tasks of an ATCO.

- Prevent collisions between aircraft

- Prevent collisions between aircraft in the movement area and obstacles in that area

- Support an orderly air traffic

- Inform concerned unit when aircraft need emergency services and support such a unit to the necessary degree

- Give recommendations and information that are importance for safety and efficiency of aviation

500

Name advantages of alliances for airlines. (5)

  •Negotiating position

   • Shared field work

   • Shared sales offices

   • Increase number of available flights

   • Results in a more attractive Frequent Flyer Program

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