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 84 customers for this flight segment in three years, what capacity requirement should be planned? Assume that management deems that a capacity cushion of 25 percent is appropriate.

Answer 1

112 customers per day

Step-by-step explanation:

For computing the needed capacity requirement, first we have to find out the new utilization rate which is shown below:

Capacity cushion = 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% = 84 ÷ Maximum capacity × 100

So, the maximum capacity is 112 customers per day

We simply applied the above formula to determine the needed capacity requirement