| "Mutt", I'm not a GF employee so won't go into specifics hence the suggestion
that they be contacted. Its my understanding however that they're throwing it out and rumour is they're not the only airline to be unhappy with it. Hardly a surprise when sales people grand statements about cost savings that bear little resemblance to reality . . .
As for Sabre, no real experience with that although its interesting that
Cargolux still make use of Jeppesen on a periodic basis which has one suspecting that Sabre struggles in one or two areas.
The moral of the story is that there's no such thing as a perfect tool and
all require a degree of manipulation to 'make things happen'. The difference
is whether its done in the backend by a nav/perf manager or whether its by a
dispatcher. My preference is to database as much as possible in advance so as to enable the maximum amount of automation on the day with no loss of accuracy. Add in additional features such as calculation of overflight costs or variable cost index and you should have a useful tool which would provide cost optimisation.
Its ultimately the cost of ownership versus the ROI the tool provides that
should form the basis of a buying decision but what I do know is that if it
seems to good to be true, it usually is! |