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

36TRAVEL$ENSEFor the airline option, this time includes checking in, walking to the gate, waitingto board the aircraft, all time needed to change flights enroute and all timerequired from the time the aircraft arrives at the gate until you are in a vehicleleaving the airport. This also includes the slow process of getting off a fullaircraft, walking to baggage claim, waiting for your luggage and obtaining a rentalcar, if applicable.ENROUTE PRODUCTIVITY JET AIRLINERThis estimate is used to calculate the Offsetting Value of Productive TimeEnroute, Productive Hours Saved and Value of Productive Hours Saved. Usersmust enter a management-defined percentage of enroute productivity possibleon jet airliners and turboprop airliners.Personal productivity as it relates to business is variable, and not easy to track.Average productivity is estimable, calculable and environment-dependent.Potential productivity on public transportation is limited, particularly forgroups, and acutely for senior management carrying sensitive information.Bottom line: It is difficult to effectively conduct business – to be substantiallyproductive – in public. The office-like environment on business aircraft canfacilitate productivity because of several factors:• Privacy and quiet (no competitors watching or listening)• Lack of interruptions (no strangers, screaming babies)• Club seating and tables (spread out, share, work)• Office equipment availability (phone, PCs, printers, modems, fax machines,VCRs)Consequently, more value is returned to the company from productive traveltime on business aircraft than on public transportation. To make this estimate,ask the passengers the following question:For the purposes of this comparison, if you can be 100 percentproductive in an average or typical hour in your office, howproductive can you be in an average or typical hour in acommercial jet airliner, a turboprop airliner, or your companyaircraft?As potential enroute productivity varies by aircraft, Travel$ense allows you todefine enroute productivity by class for airliners – turboprops (with a 40percent default) and jets (with a 64 percent default). Enroute productivity isdefinable individually for business aircraft and is entered in the aircraft databaseunder Profiles, Aircraft. In all cases the leg dead time is subtracted equally fromthe beginning and end of each flight before calculating productivity.Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.