La dificultad del CEO
Tuesday, 1. December 2009, 08:27:46
I know that magazine refered to Chief Executive Officer, but here, in aviation and in Spanish, CEO refers also to another figure: El Centro Estratégico Operacional ( Operational Strategical Centre )
I remember when I was at SEAT, we used to blame CEO because of the bad planning of flight ( and with this: delays in ETD (Estimated Time of Departure) and when my supervisor showed me that cover I took the picture in order to reprint it and post it as a kind of local joke...
... if someone had told me that two months after I took this pic I'd be hired by Mexicana de Aviación for working at CEO i wouldn't believe that...
Today I was chatting with my friend Barbara and I was showing her some pics of my office when I realized I haven't posted anything about my new job.
- Flight Planning (where dispatchers plans the route of every flight around the country and internationally)
- Crew Assignment (in which it is assigned every pilot, copilot and flight assistants for every flight, including the personnel in reserve)
- Equipment Assignment (along with crew, every flight is assigned with an airplane according to the necessities of the operation... an Airbus 318 if there is less than 100 Passengers pre-booked for that flight.... an Airbus 320 with powerful CFM Engines if there are more than 140 passengers booked and lots of cargo (like 3 or 4 tons) for that operation)
- Flight Watching (every flight is followed in a chart in order to check and change itineraries if there's a delay in any flight of the day)
- Weight and Balance... this is where I am...
What do we do in weight and balance? ok... let me put this into an image I've considered as the best for explaining:
Even though i really miss being at the ramp... I like my job, it's very interesting and... there's another via to practice my english skills while I'm dispatching flights from Canada and United States...
I'll be telling you more of this next post... because in this moment im falling asleep.

















