Cargo Planning Controller The Emirates Group

The role of the Cargo Planning Controller is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimising freighter operations across the cargo network to ensure maximum schedule reliability, payload efficiency, and commercial performance. The role oversees operational planning, aircraft utilisation, cargo flow management, and coordination with internal stakeholders, ground handlers, and airline partners to support safe, efficient, and profitable freighter operations.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and maintain the operational schedule of the freighter network, ensuring alignment with commercial requirements, operational feasibility, and integration with passenger and interline partner schedules.
• Coordinate medium- and short-term freighter operational planning with internal departments including Cargo Capacity Control, Network Control Centre, Flight Operations, Engineering, and outstation management teams, as well as external wet lease operators.
• Monitor daily and future freighter operations to identify operational constraints, schedule risks, aircraft limitations, or capacity bottlenecks, and proactively implement mitigation measures to minimise disruptions.
• Analyse cargo flows through major hubs and outstations to optimise network connectivity, aircraft routing, payload performance, and cargo uplift opportunities.
• Review aircraft deployment plans and tail assignments to ensure optimal utilisation of fleet capabilities, while identifying opportunities to improve payload performance and operational efficiency.
• Liaise with wet lease operators, airport authorities, ground handling agents, and third-party service providers to ensure operational readiness, schedule compliance, and effective handling of irregular operations.
• Support the planning and carriage of specialised, temperature-sensitive, dangerous goods, and outsized cargo in accordance with International Air Transport Association and International Civil Aviation Organization regulations and company operational procedures.
• Monitor fleet utilisation levels to ensure contractual utilisation targets for leased aircraft are achieved while maximising the productivity of company-owned freighter assets.
• Prepare operational analyses, utilisation reports, and schedule performance reviews, providing recommendations to enhance network reliability, operational efficiency, and revenue generation.
• Participate in disruption management and operational recovery planning to ensure continuity of cargo operations during aircraft, airport, weather, or network-related disruptions.