The business aviation domain has faced serious hurdles due to the current complex global political scenario, which has made a shift towards the automated systems for calculating flight times and fuel requirements a must. This move is a stepping stone for increasing the operational efficiency, accuracy in flight cost evaluations and customer satisfaction.
The Dilemma: Politics of No-Fly Zones and Manual Calculations
In spite of the progress made in the flight management systems (FMS), the old-fashioned way to manually calculate flight times using the “great circle” method is still commonly used and leads to serious inaccuracies.
Political no-fly zones, which require detours, are another hurdle for these calculations, which could at times, lead to more than 10% flight time discrepancies from the actual time. Such errors hugely increase flight costs, hence meeting of the operator with the client or operator-broker-client is in a very sour state.
The Manual Process: The Moving Snag in Operations
The normal scope of work is carried out manually, and it takes a lot of time. The sales manager is the first to decide community interest in certain routes, and this is followed by the verification from the OPS department with the aid of professional navigation software.
This process is dominated with errors and inefficiencies, sales managers are required to process through hundreds of estimates a day which increases the lead time and turns the conversion rate of quotes into bookings to be lower.
The Loss of Inverse Errors
Wrong flight time computations can arise to huge financial losses at the company with negative operational efficiencies, lost income, client dissatisfaction, and damaging the company name.
For instance, if a plane Legacy 600 charges 7,000 euros per commercial hour and that aircraft only gets a 30-minute longer flight that totally costs the flight operator 3,500 euros, it is a deduction from revenue. A company that has a fleet of 5 aircraft and gets hundreds of inquiries every day, a huge amount could be lost.
The Answer: Automation
Automated systems for flight time calculations through automation could confront these problems, offering swift, precise and effective computations. The envisaged system would have the following characteristics:
- Integration into the sales environment with seamless API connectivity to an existing FMS
- Rapid calculations (1-2 seconds) with the ability to adjust for no-fly zones
- User-friendly interfaces for easy route entry
- Multi-platform accessibility
- Easy updates for accommodating new aircraft types
this automation could cut error rates, boost response times, and ensure prices are more accurate, all of which would contribute to increased operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The Vision: Driven by the Efficiency and Reliability Expansion
The implementation of new-age digital technologies like the Aviapages Flight Route Calculator is a huge plus for the aviation industry. The more these business aviation operators opt for these digital flights and pricing planning the more we will notice a fulfilling change in the industry’s efficiency and reliability.
This turn of events was the digital automation application possibilities showing the way out of the operational hurdles bedeviling the business aviation sector, thus enabling wiser and fiscally better decisions.