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

66Defining Basic Trip InformationTRAVEL$ENSEThe Trip section of Tab 1 defines the number oflegs for your business aircraft trip, identifies a tripstatus and captures other anecdotal informationto appear on trip reports.LegsStatusA leg is defined as air travel between your origin and destination. Commonly, atwo-leg trip via business aircraft will be a round trip, out and back. For businessaircraft, a leg always consists of a single flight on a single aircraft, but it also caninclude refueling stops. For airline travel, the requirement of connecting flightsmeans that a leg, as used within Travel$ense, is one or more flights designed toget you between two points. Due to reservation system limitations, at mostthree separate flights can exist within a single leg.A trip is defined as any group of legs affiliated or grouped for any reason by theuser. Travel$ense has a limit of 12 legs in any trip. Users who wish to analyzetrips with more than 12 legs must break a trip into multiple trips.The number of legs flown in a given trip is defined on the Define Trip Tab in theTrip box with the Legs drop-down. Trips do not have to end up where theystarted. Two trip legs does not automatically mean a round trip.A four-leg corporate trip could theoretically have 12 comparable airline flights,organized within the four legs (three per flight). Travel$ense automaticallydefines the comparable airline trip(s), although users can disagree withTravel$ense’s recommendation and define their own trip using either CRSprovided data or manually entered data. As different groups of passengers mayhave different objectives within a single business aircraft trip, Travel$ense willcreate separate comparable airline trips for each group of passengers doing thesame thing.The default for trip legs is 2.Trip Type tracks the disposition of the trip – how trips are taken or even if theyare taken. Users have five choices: Flown by Column 1 Aircraft, Flown byColumn 2 Aircraft, Flown by Column 3 Aircraft, Flown by Airline orCopyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.