Making The Business Case:
Adding Feasibility-IQ® in Your Flight Department.
Assessing new software can be challenging. Use this guide to help you understand your potential gains with Feasibility-IQ and if it’s right for you.
Understanding the Landscape
Flight departments worldwide are realizing the rewards of integrating Feasibility-IQ into their international mission planning processes. Here’s why:
- Reduced Tedious Workload and Employee Burnout: Frees up your people to focus on more challenging problems than trip feasibility research.
- Faster Response Times: No more sending questions to handlers. Allows for ASAP decision making, without making your stakeholders wait.
- Savings: An average flight department using Feasibility-IQ for international mission planning is saving up to 58+ hours in labor a month!
Seeing the Data
Based on Universal’s internal data, an average 2 hr. 45 min. of research time is needed per ICAO for a fully executed international trip. Even for a research-only mission that does not happen, on an average of 45 min. of research time is needed.
Researched areas include:
- Airport details and facilities
- Short/Long-term parking options
- ARR/DEP logistics information
- CIQ details and procedures
- Peak periods and high-traffic events
- Strikes and closures
- Permit requirements and lead times
- Crew/Pax visa entry requirements
- Health entry restrictions
- Required services and provider details
- Average tech stop times
- And more.
Check out this chart:
Feasibility-IQ takes researching information at each trip stage down to just a few minutes.
| Trip Stage | Research TimeBefore Feasibility-IQ | Research TimeWith Feasibility-IQ |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-TripPotential trip request. What’s required and is it feasible? | 45 min. + wait time for answers from handlers & other third parties |
2 min. & zero wait time |
| Trip SetupTrip is a go! Now start putting it together. | 45 min. + wait time |
2 min. & zero wait time |
| ChangesSchedule changes can be VERY time costly, especially during peak periods that require you to research alternate airports. | 30 min. + wait time |
2 min. & zero wait time |
| Pre-DepartureChecking everything again to make sure nothing has changed and everything is right. | 45 min. + wait time |
2 min. & zero wait time |
Visualizing the Transformation
Calculating Your Potential Savings
Here’s a simple calculator you can use you see the potential employee time savings in your flight operation:
And for a simple cost savings example:
Note: Average cost savings varies by flight department. The breakdown between schedulers/dispatchers and crew using feasibility intelligence at the various phases of each trip will impact your exact number.
Then there’s the value of being able answer a feasibility question immediately versus researching and waiting.