Thr FR aircraft in ORK is one of the most utilized in the fleet it operates 10 sectors a day thats 10 take offs and 10 landings in a single day, the winter schedule is back into place for the crew which mean the early crew do 6 sectors which consist of ORK-DUB, DUB-ORK, ORK-DUB, DUB-ORK and ORK-LGW, LGW-ORK with the first departure at 07.40 local and the late crew do 4 sectors ORK-DUB, DUB-ORK, ORK-DUB, DUB-ORK and there first departure is 17.05 the aircraft arrives in from LGW at 16.00 and the late crew are in the air by 17.05 so can you tell me how this is badly utilized if all the turnarounds are 25mins? The aircrafts longest stay on the ground is usually in the region of 1hr and 10mins for the crew change...
It may operate 10 sectors but they're all very short. The current timetable is:
07.40-08.30 Cork to Dublin
08.55-09.45 Dublin to Cork
10.10-11.00 Cork to Dublin
10.35-12.25 Dublin to Cork
12.55-14.20 Cork to London Gatwick
14.50-16.15 London Gatwick to Cork
17.05-17.55 Cork to Dublin
18.20-19.10 Dublin to Cork
19.35-20.25 Cork to Dublin
20.50-21.40 Dublin to Cork
The Ryanair aircraft is only timetabled to spend 9.5 hours (or 570 minutes)in the sky per day. The Aer Lingus aircraft with the worst utilisation is the aircraft which operates to/from Heathrow (the bad utilisation is due to LHR slots) but thats still timetabled to operate for approximately 10.5 hours in the sky (or 625 minutes). The turnarounds may be longer but do you really think you could do 25 minute turnarounds at Heathrow?The best utilised Aer Lingus aircraft is the one that operates to Amsterdam, Paris and Lanzarote/Tenerife which spends just under 15 hours (or 880 minutes) in the sky on some days. Therefore I am completely justified in saying that the Cork based Ryanair aircraft is less utilised than any of the Aer Lingus Cork based aircraft, because it spends more time on the ground than any of the Aer Lingus aircraft do.