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October 08, 2009
Austrian Airlines increases profitability with NetLine Fleet Assigner from Lufthansa Systems
Austrian Airlines will optimize its fleet assignment with innovative IT from Lufthansa Systems. After extensive tests and a benchmark analysis the airline opted for the NetLine Fleet Assigner solution in order to increase revenues and cut costs. Both companies recently signed a three-year contract to this effect.
Fleet assignment is one of the most important steps in an airline’s flight planning process. With the NetLine Fleet Assigner Austrian Airlines can optimize the distribution of capacity within its network and analyze the effects that decisions have on its cost and earnings situation. To maximize an airlines' profit, the IT solution matches the seating capacity as closely as possible to passenger demand and exploits cost saving potentials as regards fuel consumption, maintenance and airport charges. Thereby the NetLine Fleet Assigner not only takes constraints such as aircraft range and regional take-off and landing regulations into account, but also considers fleet size and maintenance times.
Austrian Airlines, which includes the Austrian, Austrian Arrows and Lauda Air brands, serves 120 destinations worldwide with a fleet of 91 aircraft. In 2008, 10.7 million passengers flew with the Austrian Airlines Group.