• United Airlines Internship | Network Planning Intern

    Location Chicago, IL, USA
    Posted

    Job Description

    Intern roles on our Global Network & Alliances team exist in the areas of Network Planning, Scheduling, Alliances, and Strategy/Analytics. Close to your start date, you will be placed into one of these areas based on your background, skills, and preferences, and United’s business needs at that time.

    Your main responsibilities in this role include the following:


    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Manage a portfolio of markets by forecasting and executing tactical and strategic recommendations including seasonal adjustments, aircraft changes, and launching new markets

    • Build cross-functional working relationships throughout the commercial organization to align Pricing, Revenue Management, Cargo, Sales, Marketing, and other teams around a unified strategy and improve decision making in all related domains

    • Proactively research, develop and present insights with an owner mentality to senior leadership

    • Scheduling

    • Ensure aircraft routing, turn time, and ground time requirements align with United’s operational teams

    • Analyze aircraft flows, turn times, equipment type compatibility at each station, gating constraints, crew availability, and other parameters

    • Optimize United's schedule for profitability and operability while accounting for other stakeholder priorities, including safety, customer service, airport operations, aircraft maintenance, catering, inflight crew, aircraft performance and others

    • Alliances

    • Evaluate global strategic partnership opportunities within our Analysis, Commercial and Operations teams

    • Analyze financial value of partnerships and identify areas to improve revenue and the customer experience

    • Negotiate with existing and potential partners, draft contracts and coordinate with stakeholders across various departments in the company

    • Strategy & Analytics

    • Develop long-term strategic plans for United’s fleet, network, and competitive positioning

    • Evaluate and make recommendations to senior leadership on aircraft purchases, retirements or reconfigurations

    • Create rigorous, data-driven analytical tools to support optimization of schedules, fleeting, and overall capacity levels

    • Develop presentation materials for use in executive team and Board of Director meetings


    Job Requirements

    • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s Degree program; planned graduation date between Dec and July

    • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

    • Ability to handle simultaneous projects and adapt to a fast-paced, changing environment

    • Strong verbal and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills

    • Proven proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint and Excel, including key functions such as INDEX(MATCH), SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, and

    • Pivot tables

    • Intellectual curiosity, desire to learn, ability to take initiative

    • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

    • Preferred Qualifications

    • Analytical / quantitative major, e.g., Engineering, natural sciences, economics/business/finance, statistics, mathematics, etc. encouraged

    • Knowledge of Network Planning principles

    • Comfort with SQL

    Job Details

    Company: United Airlines

    Employment Type: Internship

    Job Location: Chicago, IL, United States

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