Pricing flight hours

On 5/5/2005 09:14, Dude wrote:

It sounds like your 182 is now playing the role of back up to the 182RG.
Also likely, it is a plane used by 172 users when they need more plane.

Also, it sounds like you have been treating the planes as individual units
up to now, and that no longer works for you.

Could you stop treating the planes as individual entities? Or could you
charge the other planes a "Backup Plane Support Tax"?

It seems this will be the cost of keeping the extra 182 around for
availibility reasons. Its going to need some funding from the other planes.
So instead of raising costs on just the 182, raise the costs on all the
planes a little bit.

This is going to be a big change for your club, but having a plane sitting
around under utilized costs money. It has to come from somewhere.



I agree. I think the members have joined a club that has 4 aircraft.
The fact that there are 4 aircraft is part of their agreement (similarly,
they were part of the decision in adding the fourth - at least in some way).

If the club decides that the 'cost' of having 4 airplanes is just
too much (and not worth the convenience of having the spare airplane)
then it may want to go back to having only 3. The membership may be
willing to pay a little more, in general, for the added benefit of
the fourth plane.

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Student
Sacramento, CA

Mark Hansen wrote:

On 5/5/2005 09:14, Dude wrote:


Could you stop treating the planes as individual entities? Or could you
charge the other planes a "Backup Plane Support Tax"?

[...]

This is going to be a big change for your club, but having a plane
sitting
around under utilized costs money. It has to come from somewhere.

In fact, this is one idea I've proposed.

However, it assumes that there's a cost to having that airplane sitting
around underutilized. The fixed costs are covered, so - if we're pricing
correctly - why should there be a cost to having that airplane sitting
around underutilized?

That's where I'm "stuck" now. If we can price each hour more accurately,
then the issue disappears.


[...]
The membership may be
willing to pay a little more, in general, for the added benefit of
the fourth plane.

That's a perspective I haven't yet included. Thanks. But still, I'd like
to eliminate the issue by more accurate pricing...if that's possible.

- Andrew