Position Summary
The Manager Schedule Planning is a member of the Network Planning leadership team who is responsible for short and/or long range schedule planning, slot compliance, and transition of working schedules through the various phases of production until the final handoff to the operation. This Manager supervises and directs the activities of several crewmembers.
Essential Responsibilities
- Leads a team of schedule planning analysts who are responsible for creating current and long range flight schedules
- Works with all Operating departments on all aspects of planning to ensure schedules align with operating constraints, cost targets, staffing plans and meets the company’s operating metrics
- Prepares weekly and ad-hoc schedule changes for publication
- Configures editing, reporting and optimization tools for use by Network Planning teams
- Works closely with the Route Planning team to adjust schedules to align with passenger demand and profit & loss (P&L) performance in new and existing markets
- Aligns schedules to JetBlue’s airport slot portfolio: facilitating trades; transfers; coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International slot coordinators
- Maintains daily fleet plan, actioning schedule changes when necessary to ensure sufficient aircraft are available to the operation
- Support company’s annual budget planning and quarterly guidance update process with statistics and insight based on working schedules and the daily fleet plan
- Supports other commercial and operational teams with long range planning requests and leading cross-functional projects
- Takes a significant role in the development of crewmembers to support their engagement, growth, and goal achievement
- Other duties as assigned