FIFO & Rotational Workforce Travel
Fly-in fly-out rotations are schedule-driven and unforgiving: the roster sets the travel, a missed connection leaves a shift uncovered, and the seats — on charter aircraft, buses, and ferries your organisation pays for — have no fare to ration who gets them. UnityTrip books the whole rotation as one journey, under one PNR and one policy engine, across charter and commercial legs and the room at the end of them.
The category answers to different names by region and industry — FIFO travel in Australia, camp and crew logistics or rotational workforce travel in North America, rotational travel in Africa and the Middle East, and workforce aviation logistics, personnel logistics, or crew change wherever an operation runs its own aircraft. Its closest established ancestor is the airline staff-travel system — entitlements, standby, and quotas — generalised to an organisation's own transport. The problem is the same everywhere; so is the platform.
Roster-Aligned Booking
Commercial flight, charter leg, bus or ferry, and accommodation booked as a single multi-leg itinerary aligned to the roster — one PNR, one cost centre, one audit trail.
Priority & Quotas
A priority matrix, quotas, and booking windows decide who flies when demand exceeds seats — deterministically, with a plain-English explanation when the answer is no. Build a policy free →
No-Shows & Go-Shows
Penalty points scaled to departure proximity discourage no-shows; go-show automation fills a freed seat minutes before departure. How it works →
Accommodation
Camp rooms and guesthouses booked within the same policy layer as transport, through the Elina PMS integration — same priority, same quotas, same audit trail.
Duty of Care
Real-time visibility of traveller locations and itineraries across every mode, manifests per asset, and an event-sourced audit trail for compliance reporting.
Finance
Spend is approved before travel, not discovered after it — with bidirectional SAP integration in production and expense claims in the same platform. Measure your unmanaged fraction →
Measured in Production
Seat utilisation lifted from a ~40% industry average to around 90%. No-shows down by roughly half. Rotational travel under one policy layer.
This is what disciplined, policy-governed allocation achieves across leased aircraft, chartered vessels, and commercial carriers. The levers are in the benchmarks; the approach in the case study.
FAQ
Software that manages fly-in fly-out and rotational workforce travel: roster-aligned bookings across charter and commercial legs, seat allocation under priority and quota rules, no-show and go-show handling, accommodation, and duty of care — travel driven by the operation's schedule rather than the traveller's choice.
UnityTrip books the whole rotation as one journey — commercial flight, charter leg, bus or ferry, and room — under one PNR and one policy engine. Rotation logic aligns bookings to the roster, priority and quota rules allocate scarce seats deterministically, and go-show automation fills seats freed by cancellations minutes before departure.
Yes, through its Elina PMS integration: company guesthouses and camp rooms are booked within the same policy layer as transport — same priority, same quotas, same audit trail — because for remote operations the bed is as contended as the seat.
Policy-governed FIFO travel lifts seat utilisation from a ~40% industry average to around 90%, cuts no-shows by roughly half, and brings the bulk of rotational logistics under one policy-governed workflow. The levers behind it are set out in the benchmarks.