Planning Manager

Location: Dallas, TX 75209, USA

Job Category: Commerical

Requisition Number: SCHED
002598

Schedule: Full-Time

Minimum Pay: $90,000 USD

Maximum Pay: $100,000 USD

Description:
This Is How We Fly

At JSX, we’re not just a lifestyle carrier – we’re a lifestyle employer. Here, entrepreneurship meets determination, and excellence is our standard. We believe that the journey is just as important as the destination, and every day, we strive to create a Joyful, Simple eXperience for our Customers. Join us, and find your runway to growth, innovation, and success.

As the Schedule Planning Manager you are responsible for developing, optimizing, and maintaining JSX’s flight schedules to support commercial objectives, operational reliability, and Customer satisfaction. You’ll own future and seasonal schedule design, ensure alignment with fleet and crew resources, and partner closely with Revenue Management, Operations, Hospitality, Finance, and Marketing to deliver a schedule that works across the business. This role also plays a critical role in reporting, scenario modeling, and communicating schedule decisions company-wide.

Your day will be analytical and highly collaborative, focused on designing schedules that balance demand, resources, and operational constraints while supporting growth.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Designing and maintaining future flight schedules 4–12+ months out using route performance data, market trends, and operational constraints.
• Leading seasonal schedule development aligned with demand patterns, holidays, and event calendars while ensuring aircraft and crew feasibility.
• Collaborating closely with Revenue Management, Marketing, Operations, Hospitality, Crew Scheduling, and Finance to ensure schedules are feasible and strategically aligned.
• Continuously refining schedules to optimize aircraft utilization, crew efficiency, and network performance.
• Monitoring schedule performance metrics including block times and on-time performance drivers to identify improvement opportunities.
• Modeling alternative scheduling scenarios, including new routes, new fleet scenarios, and network growth options.
• Evaluating opportunities to create new Customer connections between markets JSX does not serve nonstop.
• Ensuring all schedules meet regulatory requirements and required filings.
• Generating and distributing schedule reports and analyses for stakeholders across Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Hospitality.
• Communicating schedule changes, updates, and impacts clearly to internal teams to ensure alignment and readiness.
• Preparing reports and presentations for senior leadership outlining schedule design decisions, assumptions, and performance.

• High-Impact Work:
  Your decisions directly influence revenue, operational performance, and the Customer experience.
• Strategic Visibility:
  Partner closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams on network and growth strategy.
• Problem-Solving at Scale:
  Tackle complex planning challenges that require both analytical rigor and operational judgment.
• Room to Grow:
  Expand your influence as JSX continues to evolve and grow its network.

• Strategic: You think long-term about network design while understanding near-term operational realities.
• Analytical: You’re comfortable working with complex data, models, and scenarios to inform decisions.
• Collaborative: You work effectively across Commercial and Operational teams to build alignment.
• Detail-Oriented: You manage multiple timelines, assumptions, and constraints without losing accuracy.
• Communicative: You can translate complex scheduling decisions into clear, actionable guidance.
• Entrepreneurial: You take ownership, act decisively, and continually seek to improve.

• 4+ years of experience in airline schedule planning or network planning with a strong emphasis on long-term or seasonal scheduling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aviation Management, Transportation, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience with flight scheduling systems such as Sabre Schedule Manager, Net Line/Sched, or Amadeus.