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I’m currently waiting for a flight. Isn’t airport is a kind of queue that buffers people over time then delivers them to the sky at steady, fixed intervals? Th

• Jtsummers 4y ago
  What does it mean to improve utilization if the aircraft are at 100% utilization?
  • orf 4y ago
    Bigger aircraft I guess. But the point is that we are at full utilisation despite the “queue” (airport) never being empty, and thousands of people awaiting “delivery”. Which refutes the original point about queues not doing much unless they are empty and being unable to effect utilisation. If you have a somewhat inelastic output that benefits from batching, but has variable inputs, they are absolutely crucial to utilisation.
    • Jtsummers 4y ago
      I'm being nitpicky but my intended prompt was to get you to define what needs to be improved, which you did. You need to improve (or increase) capacity, not utilization. The two are related, but they aren't the same. Utilization being at 100% means it only has two ways to go: Stay at 100% or drop below 100%. Which one constitutes an improvement? It depends, but for the airline utilization at 100% is already what they want (by the numbers, should be their maximum profit) so it can't be improved. Only capacity can be improved.
      • pixl97 4y ago
        Capacity of course has a cost. One of the benefits in computing is we can easily up and downshift Capacity based on this like queue latency.