Have you ever heard of the term “arrival window”? It’s used in logistics and essentially it means a range of times in which the desired arrival must happen.
For example, cruise lines need their passengers to arrive in an arrival window that is typically an hour or so before the ship leaves the pier. Or a college football team may target an arrival window for an away game that is four hours before kickoff, no earlier and no later.
Transportation companies need to be aware of arrival windows and be able to hit them consistently. Otherwise, lots of problems can occur.
FloridaTours.com
One of the first questions our booking agents ask during intake calls is “What time do you want to arrive?” Depending on the type of charter bus trip, we probably have a better idea of the right answer than you do! That’s because we’ve been doing this so long and hitting arrival windows so consistently that it’s become somewhat second nature to us.
A lot of variables can affect arrival times, including traffic, weather, and typical delays related to group dynamics (ie. slowpokes and the chronically late). But we already know how to build time into your schedule to account for these slowdowns so we can still get you where you need to be on time and within your designated arrival window.
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The worst thing that can happen on a charter bus trip is for the group to arrive late to where they are going. Worst case, it can mean you miss the event. At the very least, it’s an inconvenience for the people traveling in your party.
In any case, it’s not something you ever have to worry about with FloridaTours.com because we have one of the best arrival window records in the industry.
