What is LCC to Dispatch?

[Victor Squawk]

Load Control Center / Load Control Desk

(Or alternate names)

They deliver the aft index and payload value (capacity?) to Ground Operations. That sounds like Weight and Balance to me. Yet Ground Ops also tracks and confirms the fuel weight for the aircraft.

So, how does the work of a Dispatcher relate to this process?

 

[gopherdx]

Load Control Center / Load Control Desk

(Or alternate names)

They deliver the aft index and payload value (capacity?) to Ground Operations. That sounds like Weight and Balance to me. Yet Ground Ops also tracks and confirms the fuel weight for the aircraft.

So, how does the work of a Dispatcher relate to this process?

At my airline we call them central load planning/load planner. They provide dispatch with the ZFW for flights that help us more accurately plan flights up to MLDW/MTOW.

 

[Victor Squawk]

At my airline we call them central load planning/load planner. They provide dispatch with the ZFW for flights that help us more accurately plan flights up to MLDW/MTOW.

Do you get to spend less time in the details about plane specifications, or should a dispatcher know that stuff?