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.)

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15 August, 08:12

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.)

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Cory Herman · 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