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

TRAVEL$ENSECHAPTER 11. TAB 5 – BENEFIT ANALYSISTab 5 compares the one, two or three business aircraft to the airline, showingthe differences in cost and true cost, providing comparisons of productivity andits value across travel options, and summarizing trip statistics for all traveloptions.This screen is divided into three sections:• Trip Costs Saved vis-à-vis Airline Baseline – below.• Time Saved vis-à-vis Airline Trip Cycle Baseline – on page 105.• Trip Statistics – on page 107All results on the Benefit Analysis tab have pop-up explanations activated byclicking anywhere within the field. Typically this presents some lower-level datathat was added or subtracted to produce the result. Click in the Airline columnon Cost of Air Service to see the cost and fare type of each airline ticket pricedas well as the number of passengers, for example.AIRLINE BASELINE DEFINITION103The purpose of this tab is to begin to illustrate the financial benefits that canaccrue to a company from the utilization of business aircraft. These benefits areillustrated here on a comparative financial basis – looking at the relative costsof a trip taken via business aircraft compared to a trip taken via the airlines.Consequently, the cost differential or savings from the use of business aircraft isillustrated here on the top five lines of the tab.Since the airline data is the baseline for comparison, the text “(baseline)” isincluded in the airline column.Trip Costs Saved vis-à-vis Airline BaselineThese calculations take data from Tab 4 and looking at the total cost savings oradditional costs incurred, as the result of the business aircraft travel alternativescompared to the airline in the right-hand column.Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.