Analyst/Sr Analyst, Global Capacity and Route Planning

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.
• 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

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 develops 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
• Play a key role in the planning for a successful execution of the AA operation
• Assist peers in the development of their strategic thinking and analytical/technical skills through the distilling of relevant trends from large quantities of data and understanding of complex data outputs
  
  

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
• Identify opportunities to create efficiencies with asset deployment and satisfy the requirements of other groups in the organization
• Develops and delivers 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

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training
• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Advanced degree
• Experience in airline departments such as Network Planning, Revenue Management, or Financial Analysis
  
  

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• 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
• Forward thinking self-starter that can transition between independent and collaborative team structures
• Capability to challenge self and team to develop future-oriented network strategies
• Ability to communicate, influence, and collaborate with cross-functional groups to drive outcomes which benefit the entire airline while focused commercial goals to drive results and innovative solutions
• Knowledge of AirVision Schedule Manager (Scheduling)
  
  

What You'll Get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
  
  

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20 Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.