In SchedulAir a scenario is defined as:

• a candidate schedule, and
• the corresponding constraints & costs.

Unified what-if scenario analysis and management

SchedulAir offers unified analysis of flight, aircraft, and crew scheduling scenarios. For instance, you may examine the profitability of certain new flights or new aircraft types. Likewise, you can simultaneously assess the effects of different maintenance or crew constraints or costs on your schedule. You may therefore experiment with all these scenarios and thoroughly analyze their consequences. You may also restrict other users from viewing or editing such experiments.

SchedulAir provides a scenario management tree (Figure 6) displaying the history of various scenarios and their evolution throughout experimentation or schedule development. A scenario can be named, copied, deleted, hidden, annotated, and edited. While users edit a scenario, SchedulAir tracks the different versions and which users performed them. It is easy to undo or redo any changes made.

Unified scenario comparison and merging

A scenario comparison and merging environment is also offered, using the familiar SchedulAir views of each scheduling stage (Figure 7). In the comparison environment, all differences between two scenarios are highlighted. This includes differences between the constraints, costs or the legs (either by flight number or by Origin & Destination pair). With the differences marked, it is easy to select the legs or constraints you want to keep and merge them into a new scenario or the final schedule version.

Unified schedule development

SchedulAir assists schedule development between and within departments by including multi-level rights of user and group access for the scenarios, restricting unauthorized view and edit. Therefore, multiple schedulers of different departments can work in parallel and develop distinct parts of the same schedule. These can then be compared and merged into the final schedule version.

Codeshare and competition analysis

SchedulAir can enhance your profitability by considering codeshare flights, based on the forecasted demand and revenue, while respecting passenger minimum connection times.

The schedules of partner and competitor airlines can be imported using IATA's SSIM file format, and stored for future analysis. Such an analysis may include the examination of other airlines' schedules, and exploring important markets, as well as codeshare, or passenger connection opportunities.

Report customization

SchedulAir provides a report generator (Figure 8) with which you can adapt reports to fit the needs of different departments in your airline. It is easy to filter which data to include in a report (e.g. periods, stations, O&Ds, fleets, legs), and to customize the format of text or graphics.

You can produce customized schedule or constraints reports of data including: aircraft rotations, crew pairings, fleets, stations, O&D pair information, maintenance, flight legs, as well as block, turn, and taxi times.

You can also customize statistics and marketing reports of: station or aircraft activity, aircraft or crew utilization, O&D statistics, and your overall schedule.

All these reports include industry standard data such as Available/Revenue Seats per Miles/Kilometers, as well as costs, revenue, and profit. Finally, all reports can be exported in several formats e.g. html, pdf, Microsoft Word or Excel.