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

TRAVEL$ENSEof flights obtained so far. At up to three points in the process, overnights maybe invoked based on site time considerations, desired airline travel times andreal-time flight availability. Before scoring, Travel$ense always has at least one83airline trip option that meets user criteria.Travel$ense generates scores where higher is better. There is no absolutemeaning to a score. The winner, even if a bad choice, automatically gets100. A 90in one case could be much worse than a 100, while very nearly as good inanother. All high scoring flight options meet the site time requirement. Typically,there is a jump or gap in the score for remaining, non-complying flights. There isnot a fixed cutoff level, but typically the cutoff occurs at 80 and sometimes ashigh as 90.As shown above, alternatives that provide the minimum site time are flagged inthe score column with the words “site ok” following the score. This onlyapplies to leg 2 or above, as site time is measured against the prior leg arrivalon site. The alternative used in the current airline trip is always shown as next to the score.Users are encouraged to review highly ranked flights before choosing to usethe automatically selected airline comparison. Although the highest scored flightis usually the best one, we have observed occasions when two or more flightshave scored 100 at the same time. In that case, users are encouraged toconsider each alternative for applicability. Site time requirements make up asmuch as half of the scoring. There can be on-time flight alternatives that arrivetoo late or leave too early and consequently are penalized in the scoring.Remember also that drive times and passenger processing times must be addedto consider site time. Since commercial flights generally have much higher interminalpassenger processing times for arrival/departure and may have longerdrive times to typically more distant and larger commercial airports, you mighthave to arrive 40 minutes earlier or more at the commercial airport in orderto achieve the desired site time at your destination.Copyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.