EA301MAA Airline Route and Fleet Planning Individual Assignment 2026 | EAU, Singapore

EA301MAA Individual Assignment 

Programme Name: Top-Up

Module Code:  EA301MAA 

Module Title:  Airline Route and Fleet Planning

Semester:  Fall

Academic Year:   2025-2026

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

Scenario

You are working in the Fleet Planning Department of a commercial airline operator (fixed wing or rotary). Your operator is planning to launch a new route to a destination it is not currently serving. You have been tasked with writing a business report to senior management that will:

(1) Identify a suitable destination and the appropriate aircraft and capacity to serve it.

(2) Identify and calculate key economic parameters to analyse the feasibility of the route.

(3) Make a conclusion for a go or no-go decision and recommendation on whether or not to launch, based on your analysis in (1) and (2).

(4) Write a personal learning paper on your experience and learnings from this assignment and the overall module.

1. Airline and Route Selection, Demand and Revenue Forecasts, and Aircraft Allocation

• Choose an airline that you are familiar with and/or has a complete set of information easily available for research (e.g. annual reports, fleet configuration etc.).
• Choose a destination that is not currently served by your airline but has potential.
• Choose an aircraft: this can be a type that your airline currently operates, is planning to operate, or a new aircraft type (with considerations for new type induction).
• Ensure the aircraft selected has the range, performance, and capacity suitable for the chosen route and airport.
• Estimate passenger and cargo demand (by class) both ways between the hub and the new destination.
• Establish a schedule for the new route (frequency, timing) considering time zones, hub connections, airport curfews etc.
• Calculate the yield, sector revenue (passenger and cargo), load factor, RASK, etc.
• Draw up a weight build-up chart for the new flight to verify assumptions.

2. Key Costs

• Identify and calculate the three main direct operating costs: fuel, crew cost (cockpit and cabin), and aircraft cost (purchase/lease, depreciation).
• Identify and calculate two other significant direct operating costs: e.g., ATC/navigation charges, ground handling, maintenance, inflight service.
• Add any other relevant direct/indirect costs (e.g., marketing, route launch promotions, etc.).

3. Conclusion and Recommendation

• Make a go or no-go decision based on analysis.
• Justify your decision using appropriate metrics discussed in the course.
• List any additional analysis or data that would help validate your decision further.

4. Personal Learning Paper

• Write about key learnings gained from the module and this assignment.
• Discuss the three most important aspects of Airline Route and Fleet Planning and explain their importance.

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