APM’s at the heart of avi­a­tion indus­try this week: We’re exhibit­ing at the bi-annu­al IATA Slot Con­fer­ence, which begins in Prague today.

Our focus for this event is net­work profitably.

In par­tic­u­lar, we’re demon­strat­ing how APM’s pow­er­ful suite of sim­u­la­tion tools, devel­oped by our team in Gene­va, real­ly help.

When it comes to fore­cast­ing prof­itabil­i­ty, Prof­it­Sim is a tool that inspires confidence.

A pow­er­ful fore­cast­ing appli­ca­tion, Prof­it­Sim let’s users test the prof­itabil­i­ty of sched­ule sce­nar­ios – from a sin­gle rota­tion, sec­tor or route, right through to an entire network.

It’s flex­i­ble too. For instance, Prof­it­Sim can cal­cu­late pro­ject­ed flight rev­enue fore­casts based on seat load factors.

The appli­ca­tion is able to cal­cu­late rev­enue, direct oper­at­ing costs and allo­cate over­heads to gen­er­ate a net prof­itabil­i­ty forecast.

Cru­cial­ly, Prof­it­Sim helps air­lines iden­ti­fy poten­tial­ly loss-mak­ing and low-mar­gin flights; deliv­er­ing vital insight that informs flight oper­a­tion decision-making.

It’s the com­bi­na­tion of APM’s sim­u­la­tion tools that make them such valu­able oper­a­tional and strate­gic tools.

Take Sched­uleS­im with Prof­it­Sim, for instance: By com­bin­ing the pow­er of APM’s sched­ule sce­nario plan­ning tool and fore­cast­ing appli­ca­tion, air­lines can pin­point prof­itabil­i­ty by net­work, sched­ule, fleet, route, flight type and destination.

Sched­uleS­im offers the capac­i­ty to cre­ate poten­tial­ly lim­it­less sce­nar­ios, export them to Prof­it­Sim, and then analyse each sce­nario against a cus­tomis­able data­base of sup­pli­er and direct oper­at­ing costs in order to cal­cu­late the prof­itabil­i­ty per scenario.

Once the best sched­ule option’s been select­ed, Sched­uleS­im allows users to pre­pare and sub­mit slot sub­mis­sions and export the select­ed sched­ule sce­nario into Sched­ule­Plan­ner (or an airline’s cur­rent live pro­duc­tion sched­ule software).

Prof­it­Sim and Sched­uleS­im are just two of the many rea­sons airline’s world­wide rely on APM’s suite of sched­ul­ing and slot man­age­ment, and flight­watch, crew­ing and com­mer­cial software.

So, if you’re at Slot Con­fer­ence this week, be sure to stop by to take a look at Prof­it­Sim at Slot Con­fer­ence this week.