Freighter Scheduling Manager
Role Overview
Schedule short- and long-term freighter operations to optimize aircraft utilization while accounting for commercial needs, airport slots, maintenance, crewing, and other operational factors.
Devise annual network operating plans to maximize commercial returns and capacity utilization while controlling costs and improving profitability.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role purpose
Schedule short- and long-term freighter operations to optimize aircraft utilization while accounting for commercial needs, airport slots, maintenance, crewing, and other operational factors.
Devise annual network operating plans to maximize commercial returns and capacity utilization while controlling costs and improving profitability.
Key responsibilities
- Create and communicate annual operating plans that account for current and future freighter capacity.
- Manage airport slot constraints, preserve historic slots, and secure commercially desirable slots.
- Develop a scalable DWC freighter hub with customer-oriented East–West transit times, considering curfews, historic slots, and infrastructure limits.
- Plan aircraft maintenance checks at DXB and outstations while maintaining schedule integrity.
- Incorporate freighter requirements into AirVision Sabre Scheduling and coordinate with cargo scheduling, planning, and IT.
- Integrate schedule planning with SSIM files and systems including SkyChain, CORE, LIDO, POWER, and RPS; improve automated schedule dissemination.
- Coordinate permits and approvals for scheduled and ad-hoc freight flights.
- Work with Crewing on cost-effective crew solutions and ensure flights are adequately crewed.
- Analyze costs and revenues for diversions and new rotations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or Honours qualification and professional knowledge of airline or cargo operations.
- Knowledge and experience in scheduling systems.
- Completion of relevant industry- or airline-approved advanced cargo acceptance handling and load-planning courses.
- In-depth knowledge of strategic planning and key air-cargo influencing factors.
- Advanced knowledge of cargo systems and Microsoft Office packages.
Salary and benefits
- Competitive salary; no salary amount or pay cadence is stated.
- Travel benefits include discounts on flights and hotel stays.
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