Airlines

Cost Control Recommendations:

Fuel cost reduction policy• Optimizing aircraft fleet dispatch• Reducing dead weight of an aircraft• Improving aircraft fuel saving performance• Conducting fuel hedging strategies

Employee productivity improvement• Scheduling reasonable flight hours for flight crew• Reducing cabin crew over-time hours• Dispatching maintenance staff efficiently during

direct working Hours• Encouraging employees to provide cost-control

strategies

Flight operations• Correcting en route flight plans and alternate airports• Optimizing flight speeds using the efficient cost index• Optimizing aircraft landing procedures• Reducing fuel consumption in ground operations• Announcing fuel saving policies and procedures, and

carrying out safety audits

Aircraft maintenance cost reduction• Replacing old aircraft• Optimizing maintenance scheduling• Establishing maintenance resource sharing

networks• Establishing an effective parts supply chain

Operating procedure simplification• Increasing direct ticket sales• Promoting bar code boarding passes• Reducing system-related reservation costs• Shortening taxi-out times