Operations Control is your live picture of the airline: every tail, every rotation, and a red line marking right now. When something goes wrong in the network, this is where you see it first.
The rotation board#
The board draws a timeline bar chart of your whole fleet, grouped by aircraft type. Each row is one tail; each bar is one flight. You can step a day back or forward, snap back to now, widen the window to 24, 48, or 72 hours, and filter to a single type. The header keeps a running total of fleet block hours per week and average utilization.
Bars are color-coded by status:
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Outlined bar | Scheduled, not yet departed |
| Solid teal bar | En route right now |
| Grey bar | Arrived |
| Red hatched bar | Cancelled |
| Dashed bar | Ferry flight (no passengers) |
| Wide hatched block | Heavy-check hangar window |
| Amber tail on a bar | Delay pushing past the scheduled arrival |
Each tail's label also carries badges worth acting on: RESERVE (held as a spare; see Reserves & substitution), STORED, IN CHECK, and an amber NO MAINT WINDOW warning when a rotation is missing its required weekly line-maintenance ground time. Fix that in the schedule before it bites; see Scheduling gates.
Drilling into a flight#
Click any bar to open the flight's detail drawer: route, flight number, status, departure and scheduled arrival, any delay with the new expected time, the operating tail and type, and, for your own flights, seats sold against capacity per cabin class. It's the fastest way to answer "how full is the flight I'm about to lose?" For deeper sales digging, see Inventory & load monitoring.
The disruptions rail#
A collapsible panel on the right summarizes the last 24 hours: how many flights were delayed, how many cancelled, and what the compensation bill came to. Each row shows the flight number (or FERRY), the city pair, departure time, a Cancelled or Delayed +minutes chip, and the money it cost you. An empty rail is the goal.
One honest caveat: a flight rescued by a reserve aircraft departs on time, so it never appears here; if the substitute was smaller, the denied-boarding compensation shows up on your ledger, not in this list.
Where the rest lives#
Operations Control is for watching. Day-to-day levers live on the neighboring fleet pages: the roster with condition, heavy-check clocks, crew, and ownership on the Fleet page; on-time performance over the last seven days there too (in worlds with delays enabled); hangar planning under Maintenance & heavy checks; layouts under Cabins; and buying, leasing, and ordering under Leasing, buying & ordering.