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

TRAVEL$ENSESleeping time is never valued. It is counted as non-business hours away fromhome.ALTERNATIVEAn alternative is one or more flights in a component that meet your queryparameters. The query results consist of a table of available alternatives for eachcomponent.AVERAGE GROUND TRAVEL TIMEThe average (for all passengers) amount of time spent traveling door to doornot in the aircraft for all legs. It includes drive time to and from the airport,terminal time, and layover time between flights. It does not include layover timefor direct (same airplane, one stop) flights, which Travel$ense ignores fortechnical reasons. This number can be surprisingly high as travelers tend toignore, discount or dismiss the amount of time it takes to get to and fromairports. From an efficiency and productivity standpoint, however, a minutesaved is a minute saved, and time lost is counted and tallied.AVERAGE TIME ON-SITEThe average (for all passengers) amount of time spent on site during businesshours only (individually defined) during all legs of the trip. For airline trips, thismay include extra, less valued, time on site required by airline schedules(overnight, assumed to arrive at site at start of your business day nextmorning).BASELINEUsed on the Benefit Analysis, this indicates that the airline is used as the basisfor comparison for the business aircraft options, which display the cost/timesavings versus the airlines.BOOKABLE AIRLINE197Airline participants in the reservation system airline-specific availabilityprogram. A few low cost carriers and foreign carriers do not participate andcan not be priced via the reservation system. The bookable indicator is set toNo. A few carriers, including Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and AmericanTrans Air, participate at a lower level in the reservation system. Their bookableindicator is set to Basic. Travel$ense will use these airlines in one or two legtrips within the restrictions imposed by the reservation system that a singlebasic bookable carrier must be used for all flights within a trip.Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.