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 8989 customers for this flight segment in three​ years, what capacity requirement should be​ planned? Assume that management deems that a capacity cushion of 2525 percent is appropriate.

The needed capacity requirement is ____ customers per day.

Answer 1

119 customers per day

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the needed capacity requirement is shown below:

But before that first we have to determine the utilization rate which is

As we know that

Cushion rate = 100% - average utilization rate

25% = 100% - average utilization rate

So, the average utilization rate is 75%

Now the needed capacity requirement is

Utilization rate = Average output rate ÷ Maximum capacity × 100

75% = 89 ÷ Maximum capacity × 100

So, the maximum capacity is 119 customers per day