Regarding southwest airlines What are the different aspects

Regarding southwest airlines. What are the different aspects of productivity of an Airline? How might these aspects be measured?

Solution

There are two aspects of Airline Productivity - Aircraft Productivity and Employee Productivity. The Aircraft productivity is measured to find how more flight departures per day can be planned either through shorter turnaround (ground) times or off-peak departure times or how longer stage lengths can be achieved or how more seats can be installed in the same aircraft space. When it comes to Aircraft Productivity, the following measures are there -

The employee productivity is concerned with measuring the output (revenue or ASMs) per unit of input spent in retaining or employing an employee. For employee productivity, we can use the following measures -