Travel$ense User's Guide (PDF, 139 MB) - NBAA

TRAVEL$ENSEIn 1997, an NBAA-commissioned Louis Harris Poll provided enrouteproductivity estimates from business aircraft passengers by type of aircraft. Anumber of business jet categories were rated as more than 100 percent relativeto working in the office. By contrast jet airliners had an average rating of 64percent and turboprops a rating of 40 percent. When the growing importanceof confidentiality of discussions and of laptop displays is considered, thesenumbers may over-state airline productivity.ENROUTE PRODUCTIVITY TURBOPROP AIRLINERThis category is the same as Enroute Productivity Jet Airliner, although typicallyusers would enter a number lower than that entered for jet airliners asturboprop airliners can be a little less hospitable then jets due to factors suchas noise and personal space. The default value is 40 percent based on the LouisHarris Poll productivity results. Travel$ense invokes this value to help calculateenroute productivity when a flight includes a turboprop aircraft.PERCENT PRODUCTIVE DURING EXTRA ON-SITE TIME: CORPORATEAND AIRLINEThis value determines productivity during extra site time as defined on theMeetings Schedule Screen and as created by the comparison of the airline andbusiness trip cycle (Productive Hours Saved calculation on Tab 5). It offers theuser the chance to separately value extra time spent on a site unnecessarilydue to aircraft schedules. This also is known as “slack” time.The issue raised here is whether extra time on site, unnecessarily required dueto aircraft flight schedules, should be valued as fully productive. Is their timebetter spent doing something else?Time on site equivalent to that which is supplied by business aircraft is valuedequally to the same amount of time supplied by the airline flight schedules.Extra time on site required by aircraft schedules invokes this defaultpercentage.It is an efficiency and time management issue, and its valuation will steer thedecision matrix. A 0 steers numbers toward acute efficiency; a 100 steers thedecision matrix toward ignoring the issues. In effect, a 100 is anti-efficient timemanagement.The default for both business aircraft and the airlines is 50.37Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.