Sr Network Planning Analyst

Department:

Network Planning

Our Company Promise

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Job Description:

All of Southwest’s People come together to deliver on our Purpose; Connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. The Senior Network Planning Analyst delivers on our Purpose by performing complex and highly visible route and frequency planning studies. This role involves strategic analysis, design, editing, and optimization during the development of the Southwest flight schedule. Responsibilities include analyzing flight routes, creating efficient aircraft routings, building dashboards and tools to advance analytics, and ensuring cost-effective solutions to enhance network performance and revenue generation while meeting operational requirements. The Senior Network Planning Analyst is a strong communicator and strategic thinker who is ready to help drive revenue and profitability at Southwest. 

Additional details: 

• The culture of Southwest Airlines means we value the camaraderie, collaboration, and innovation that occurs when we come together and interact face-to-face at our vibrant Corporate Campus. Due to the nature of this role, you would be required to work from our Dallas, TX Headquarters facility during business hours.   

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.   

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We continue to look for opportunities to reflect the communities we serve, and welcome applicants with diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences.  

Responsibilities

• Executes the revisions of the Southwest flight schedule through the production of high-quality inputs, managing constraints, identifying obstacles and recommending solutions, and ensures that all schedule initiatives are met
• Executes the process of gathering schedule change requests/inputs/constraints from other departments, such as Network Planning, Crew Planning, Ground Operations, Operational Performance and Revenue Management
• Executes the advanced execution of complex schedule changes including Demand Shaping, Available Fleet deployment, ASM adjustments, slot changes, etc.
• Ensures that all schedule parameters are met, including market frequencies, physical gates, staffed gates, connecting bank structures, minimum turn times, block times, tow times, gate assignments, etc.
• Evaluates commercial requests to determine the best way to achieve them without violating operational requirements and minimize the impact on already booked Customers
• Performs complex, highly visible flight schedule revisions with guidance
• Performs the highly visible and complex post-publication capacity changes including but not limited to demand shaping, available fleet deployment, ASM adjustments, international and domestic extra sections
• Functions at an advanced level in schedule editing
• Creates the checklist for each bi-weekly schedule revision to ensure that all revisions are documented and executed into all published schedules with zero defects
• Creates the final schedules in preparation for schedule publication
• Creates complex, highly visible flight schedule reporting in support of schedule revisions
• Evaluates commercial requests to determine the best way to achieve them without violating operational requirements and minimize the impact on already booked Customers
• Implements initiatives, improves processes and creates efficiencies to allow for quick turn schedule modifications
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs an