Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you’ll love this job
- This job is a member of the Network and Schedule Planning Team within the Revenue Division.
- This is a 40hr. per week, in office, internship during the fall of 2024 (August – November, 2024).
- Scheduling: Responsible for analyzing and developing future network schedules that are designed to maximize American’s profitability, working collaboratively with all groups within the Network Planning and the rest of the Commercial organization.
- Planning: Responsible for evaluating historical and future profitability metrics and booking trends, collaborating closely with Network scheduling, Operations, Revenue Management, and Sales teams, forecasting new routes, evaluating historical and future profitability metrics, and fostering relationships with outside stakeholders in the region such One World and Interline/Codeshare partners.
What you’ll do
You would be working daily with our Planning or Scheduling teams to optimize the network and contribute to a reliable operation.
Scheduling
- Develops schedules in the AirVision Schedule Manager environment that meet operational constraints and optimize profitability.
- Close in schedule adjustments related to supportability and demand environment changes.
- Collaborates and assists cross-functional groups to drive outcomes to the benefit of the entire airline.
- Performs data analyses to solve schedule optimization problems. Leverages understanding of the airline business and commercial goals to drive results and innovative solutions.
- Possesses a team-focused attitude and an ability to coordinate with stakeholders in Network Planning, Operations Research, and IT
- Represents Network Planning during interactions with other commercial and operational groups
- Develop an understanding of the various hub contributions to the overall network
- Support in the planning for a successful execution of the AA operation
Planning
- Track industry trends and use both internal and external data to identify lucrative opportunities to improve the existing route network as well as add to our ever-growing list of destinations
- Manage key international relationships with our airline partners and outside stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with other facets of the company such as Revenue Management and Sales to develop analyses and forecasts to advance our network in this dynamic business
- Maintain reports that contribute to our understanding of our successes and where improvements can be made that align with our commercial goals and drive results
- Garner support for new initiatives that reshape and rethink how our international network functions and interacts with the rest of the airline
- Assist in identifying opportunities to create efficiencies with asset deployment and satisfy the requirements of other groups in the organization
- Emphasis on constructing a future-oriented airline that remains relevant to our diverse customer base
- Focus on delivering data analyses, data visualization reports, presentations, and other documentation necessary to share capacity plans with internal stakeholders at all levels of seniority
All you’ll need for success
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree with an approaching graduation date (December 2024 – December 2025)
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects on an ongoing basis
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Forward thinking self-starter that can transition between independent and collaborative team structures
- Ability to solve complex problems and puzzles in a constrained and dynamic environment
- Adaptive to new ideas and business processes in an ever-changing marketplace
- Ability to work with cross-functional groups and quickly develop relationships