Fleet Planning Manager
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- Malta Island
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with Flight Approval and Crew Planning teams, under the direction of Fleet Planning Management, to optimize the Vista Fleet schedule.
- Ensure optimal aircraft allocation by balancing efficiency, revenue maximization, operational sustainability, and premium client experience.
- Minimize ferry flights to enhance efficiency
- Maintain operational sustainability by enabling adequate crew rest, facilitating maintenance requirements, and coordinating crew transitions
- Maximize revenue through strategic flight stacking and aircraft availability optimization
- Elevate client experience by prioritizing assignment of aircraft in optimal condition to VVIP passengers
- Evaluate and approve or reject Non-Guaranteed Service (NGS) requests in alignment with commercial strategy and operational feasibility.
- Safeguard company profitability by ensuring flights remain above Minimum Diluted Yield (MDY) thresholds through proactive schedule optimization.
- Escalate exceptions in accordance with guidelines established by the Vista Executive Committee.
- Continuously analyze global scheduling patterns to identify trends, opportunities, and regional capacity requirements.
- Proactively escalate insights, risks, and improvement opportunities to Senior Fleet Planning Managers and Fleet Planning Director.
- Suggest operational solutions, aimed at increasing aircraft deliveries, improving asset utilization, and strengthening overall scheduling efficiency.
- Maintain strategic fleet flexibility to support last-minute operational recoveries by:
- Identifying and escalating periods of constrained availability
- Recommending strategic off-fleeting of flights when appropriate
- Protecting aircraft allocated for recovery purposes from advance operational commitments
- Proven experience in fleet scheduling and optimization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Data-driven decision making with ability to analyse performance metrics.
- Strong commercial acumen with focus on revenue, yield and operational efficiency.
- Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to keep high performance under pressure.