DayJet Mins.

[JimNtexas]

How much useful load will an Eclipse have with two pilots in the front and gas for 300 miles?

 

[Guitar Guy]

That useful load better be at least 2 people because Ed Iacobucci (president and CEO of Dayjet) says that Dayjet needs to fill about 1.3 seats to break even.

See this article: http://www.dayjet.com/News/recentarticles/CNET042505.pdf

 

[Publishers]

The thing about Dayjet is that they need so few travelers to breakeven. The flight plan is not generated until the previous evening.

 

[Diesel]

Who cares about the when the flight plan is generated.

You can plan plan and plan but it all comes apart with one throw of the stone into the pond.

But then again publishers is from the outside looking in. Makes him perfect for mgmt.

 

[gunfyter]

Diesel,

I think the thing that makes it simpler is that they plan on using a limited number of airports.

Sort of like Cape Air with VLJ's instead of 402''s.

 

[LAZYB]

They ought to take lessons from the folks in HR at UAL. Correct me if I'm wrong, but at UAL, mins were 250TT, no turbine let alone jet or PIC time required (during their hiring days). Thats just the opposite of excessive.

Yeah, but that was the product of numerous EOE lawsuits. :smash:

 

[Diesel]

The difference with care and dayjet is numerous.

Cape air/ack air/ect operates from high pax volume airports to high pax volume airports.

BOS-ACK-BOS
BOS-MVY-BOS
BOS-HYA-BOS
BOS-Ptown-HYA-BOS

Schedules like that during the summer. They operate multiple and multiple roundtrips with a "schedule" The 1200 fills up by 1130 then it's gone and the 1200 becomes the 1215 or so. During the summer it's fill n go fill n go.

High volume going to a place where you can't even think of driving to (an island) or would want to drive to in the summer. (anywhere on the cape).

The pax are also what makes cape air work. They know that sometimes on the way to ack a stop in HYA might happen. They know that the weather sucks in mvy or ack. They know the 1200 can leave at 1130 or 1230 depending on load.

Dayjet is going to be flying buisnessmen to a meeting where actually being on time is important. It's not a flight with a bunch of bermuda shorts and nantucket red shirts going out to the islands for the weekend.

Is Dayjet just going to takeoff if it only has one pax and the other one is late?

 

[gunfyter]

Yes I think its going to have to work a little like Cape Air... modified with a bit more complexity but then again they got that super whiz bang computer scheduling program.

 

[Diesel]

yeah any way we can get our hands on that?

Or whiz band scheduling system just goes bang.

 

[VGerect]

but then again they got that super whiz bang computer scheduling program.

What happens during hurricane season when the power to their HAL-9000 goes out for a week?
"I'm sorry Dave I can't do that"