Job Title: Supervisor Network Planning
Organisation: Uganda Airlines
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
About Organisation:
Uganda Airlines is the flag carrier of Uganda. The company is a revival of the older Uganda Airlines which operated from 1977 until 2001. It began flying in August 2019.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create schedules that effectively utilizes aircraft resources.
- Improve aircraft and fleet utilization.
- Implement successful scheduling strategies.
- Review passenger traffic demand, flight schedule data and optimization tools
- Building relationships with airports and third parties (regions, tourism bodies, etc.).
- Assessing new markets based on strategic fit, financial potential, growth opportunity, risks, and possible entry points.
- Determining viable new routes and bases to add to the network.
- Providing financial forecasts for potential new routes and bases.
- Building and maintaining financial evaluation tools as required.
- Working with the revenue management team to determine amendments to existing routes, frequencies, and airports.
- Assessing competition in terms of strategic plans, seasonal developments in capacity and fares, analysing strengths/weaknesses and recommending actions based on the risks and opportunities.
- Assessing and interpreting the market, economic and industry trends and the impact on route choice.
- Managing the base mix cost to ensure it does not exceed budgeted costs.
- Schedule responsibilities:
- Developing schedules which utilize crew manpower and aircraft efficiently and effectively.
- Loading and managing flight capacity in the scheduling and flight operation systems.
- Building and managing relationships with slot co-coordinators throughout Europe.
- Securing and maintaining airport slots for future schedules.
- Aligning and managing the communication and approval process between the scheduling and operational departments.
- Coordinating data analysis with revenue management to improve revenue generation of different schedule scenarios.
- Developing robust schedule tools to improve efficiency.
- Managing IT system development projects related to scheduling, network & slot management.
Regulatory responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining relationships with applicable CAA’s.
- Monitoring and negotiating bilateral agreements in relevant markets.
- Securing route permits in a timely manner.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration or a related field.
- 7 years minimum commercial Airline experience in a similar position is a must.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Business mindset and ability to synthesize information into recommendations.
- Good oral and written presentations skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good oral and written presentations skills.
- Negotiation skills
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join Uganda Airlines in this capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 16th September 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84