Manager Schedule Planning

flyadeal; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional airline is seeking a Manager Schedule Planning to optimize and manage flight schedules across all operations. The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree in aviation or engineering and have at least 5 years of experience in airline scheduling. Responsibilities include developing flight schedules, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing aircraft utilization to improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5 years of work experience in airline scheduling.
• 2 years of work experience on specific scheduling tools.
• Ability to evaluate and implement operational schedules.

Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate schedule needs for operations.
• Develop short and long-term flight schedules.
• Ensure schedule compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Optimize aircraft utilization across the network.

Skills

Analytical skills

Slot portfolio management

MS tools proficiency

Good team player

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in aviation discipline, engineering, or related field

Tools

Airflite/NetLine/Oasis/Zu

Job description

Overview

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.

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 schedules (3 days – 1 year), including seasonal adjustments and operating plans
• Develop long-term plans to assist in evaluating future fleet requirements and network expansion
• Manage slot portfolio, coordinate 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, analyze 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 situations
• Participate in maintenance programs and proactively incorporate all maintenance program requirements in the schedule well in advance
• Identify and communicate opportunities with relevant stakeholders to increase asset utilization
• Continuously evolve schedule to improve aircraft utilization
• Continuously improve to reduce downtime between flights

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in aviation discipline, engineering, or related field
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in airline scheduling, including at least 2 years of work experience on Airflite/NetLine/Oasis/Zu
• Analytical skills
• Slot portfolio management
• MS tools proficiency
• Good team player
• Detail-oriented