Ghulam Murtaza
Airline Network & Schedule Planning
Wakra
Summary
Airline professional with over 14 years of experience in areas of Network and Schedule Planning, Airport Slot Management and Airline Sales Promotion & Management.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Schedule Planning Analyst
Qatar Airways Cargo
9 2022 - Current
- Develop seasonal schedules ensuring optimum utilization of aircrafts
- Evaluate ad-hoc charter requests and propose charter schedules with minimum disruption
- Keep close liaison with Revenue Management & Regional Sales teams to adjust capacity during lean & peak seasons
- Work cross functionally with Revenue Management and Network Development teams to enhance each schedule’s revenue potential, and asses the feasibility of network or capacity changes
- Liaise with Ground Operations, Flight Operations, Operations Control, Maintenance and Crew Planning teams to ensure the feasibility of the schedules and minimize the cost of the operation
- Distribute schedules to external stake holder (GDS) and load operational and reservation systems
- Manage QR’s slot portfolio, ensure historic slots are maintained and pursue new suitable slots to meet changing demand
- Provide analysis on airport capacity and strategies to maximize growth opportunities in congested airports
- Increase the team efficiency by reducing manual tasks through automatic solutions or new processes
- Maintain & update industry data in system
- Lead and train staff to meet performance expectations
Schedule Planning Analyst
Qatar Airways Cargo
07.2019 - 08.2022
Assistant Manager
Pakistan International Airlines
04.2018 - 06.2019
- Design optimized network model to better meet commercial requirements
- Analyze traffic trends, and ensure deployment of right aircraft on particular route
- Ensure the scheduled ASKS are in line with business plan
- Build cost scenarios to analyze long term and short term network profitability
- Develop business cases to evaluate low performing routes and recommend profitable changes
- Develop seasonal IATA Summer & Winter schedules (inclusive of Hajj, Umrah & Charters) with increased passenger connectivity ensuring optimum utilization of aircrafts
- Liaison with Engineering to ensure availability of aircraft and meet maintenance requirements
- Evaluate ad-hoc charter requests and propose changes in the schedule with minimum repercussion to maximize the profit
- Keep close liaison with Revenue Management & Regional Sales teams to meet demands during lean & peak seasons
- Maintain & update industry data in system
- Distribute of schedules to all stake holders
- Coordination with Civil Aviation & Airport authorities all over PIA network for clearance of schedules
- Manage PIA’s slot portfolio, ensure historic slots are maintained and pursue new suitable slots to meet changing demand
- Generating SIR, SAQ, SMA and SCR messages for updating the PK slot
Senior Sales Promotion Officer
Pakistan International Airlines
01.2009 - 12.2017
- Take on ownership of commercial objectives that are part of the Sales Plan, and deliver the required results
- Implement the marketing strategy, based on knowledge of company's objectives, market characteristics and cost factors
- Coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote services of the company
- Timely monitor and evaluate the aviation services markets and trends, and identify and quantify relevant opportunities
- Overall increase the company sales revenue and achieve given targets
- Provide motivation and leadership for the sales team
- Develop maximum revenues at the highest return through sales initiatives and programs in conjunction with corporate objectives
- Develop and execute Sales Plan
- Monitor Sales Plans and Forecasts for nominated accounts
- Analyze route performance reporting on BSP revenue analysis of individual Corporate and Leisure Accounts
- Report monthly overall performance
Administrative Officer
SBK Women’s University
01.2007 - 12.2009
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Iqra University
Skills
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Tableau
Training
- Airport Slot Management and Coordination, IATA
- Network, Fleet and Schedule Planning, IATA
- Airline Business Management – Air Mercury Simulation, IATA Training Center, Singapore
- PaxIs, Pakistan International Airlines Training Center
- Management Trainee Program, Pakistan International Airlines Training Center
- Tariff & Ticketing Basics, Pakistan International Airlines Training Center
- Reservation & Ticketing (SABRE), Pakistan International Airlines Training Center
Timeline
Schedule Planning Analyst
Qatar Airways Cargo
07.2019 - 08.2022
Assistant Manager
Pakistan International Airlines
04.2018 - 06.2019
Senior Sales Promotion Officer
Pakistan International Airlines
01.2009 - 12.2017
Administrative Officer
SBK Women’s University
01.2007 - 12.2009
Lead Schedule Planning Analyst
Qatar Airways Cargo
9 2022 - Current
Master of Business Administration -
Iqra University
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