Hi, I waas thinking, a gate can be operational twenty-four hours a day, yet you only get five slots per gate. With this formula, each plane takes 4.8 hours to turn!.
So this got me thinking, why not have a time bank (like available flight hours for planes) for each gate? Ex. you have one gate. you have twenty-four hours each day in which to schedule flights. You want to fly a 737 twice daily out of that gate. So, say a 737 takes 40 min. to turn. Add 20 min. to that to allow time for moving planes, and you now have twenty-three hours left to schedule flights.
it would work like this:
1440 minutes available without flights. (24 hours)
- 40 minutes to turn a 737
- 20 minutes to switch planes at that gate
1380 minutes to schedule other planes
Change to the way gate slots work
Started by airline55, Aug 04 2005 04:27 PM
#1
Posted 04 August 2005 - 04:27 PM
#2
Posted 04 August 2005 - 04:37 PM
makes sense
#3
Posted 04 August 2005 - 04:57 PM
Agree. Only, if a 737 takes 40 minutes to turn, and you fly twice daily, wouldn't you need 80 minutes at gate and 40 minutes switching time?
I believe it was something like this Miller meant when he talked about a (future) feature that larger planes should use more slots.
I believe it was something like this Miller meant when he talked about a (future) feature that larger planes should use more slots.
#4
Posted 04 August 2005 - 05:44 PM
yeah.
#5
Guest_GulfCoast_*
Posted 06 August 2005 - 06:07 PM
Check this out. It's been brought up in the past and includes a response from Miller.
http://www.airlineem...ead.php?tid=300
http://www.airlineem...ead.php?tid=300
#6
Posted 09 August 2005 - 11:52 AM
I think a better idea would be buying slots from the airports directly . Only if u need very much slots u buy gates , but then the gates would have more then 5 slots and would be much more expensive . how about this ?
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