Question

An airline company must plan its fleet capacity and its​ long-term schedule of aircraft usage. For one flight​ segment, the average number of customers per day is​ 70, which represents a 65 percent utilization rate of the equipment assigned to the flight segment. If demand is expected to increase to 9090 customers for this flight segment in three​ years, what capacity requirement should be​ planned? Assume that management deems that a capacity cushion of 3535 percent is appropriate.

The needed capacity requirement is

customers per day. ​(Enter your response rounded up to the next whole​ number.)

Answer 1

This year’s capacity requirement, allowing for a 25-percent capacity cushion, is 93.3 (or70/[1.0×0.25]) customers per day. Three years from now, if demand increases by 20 percent, the cus-tomer requirement will be about 112 (or 93.3+93.3×20%) customers per day for this flight segment