Strategic Fleet Plan for a Sudanese Airline

Abstract

The problem of how to choose the number and size of aircraft designated airline to perform for years to come that it is a difficult process, needs a lot of knowledge and information and there is a very big risk financially and technically. In this project Sudanese airline was taken as a case study and given a plan to buy aircrafts needed, historical information has been collected, and the future expectations were estimated based on these information, and identified the growth rate in the movement and compared that figure with the global growth rate predicted by the big companies, also identified the market share of the company placed on the study. From aircrafts statistics found that the Narrow Body Aircrafts, both B737 and A320 is the right aircraft for the lines and in line with the global development, and tested in the lines chosen by the company has been selected A320-200 as well as for the Turboprop aircrafts for domestic flights the Q400 was chosen. The traditional planning became inadequate and needed to be accompanied by a strategic planning that depends on the ability of planners to deal with the variables. In the end it’s recommended that people to learn the method of strategic planning for the future, and for those who come after to exploit the subject in the best way possible.