Audience
This course addresses experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Rostering/Preferential Bidding System. Beginners not familiar with crew rostering concepts should begin with the course Introduction to Rostering.

Duration 2 days

Course goals
This course gives you a thorough introduction Carmen Crew Rostering/PBS. After completing the course you will be able to:

• produce production rosters using Carmen Crew Rostering
• perform simple simulations
• use both manual and automatic tools

Course topics

• Graphical user interface (Studio)
  • toolbars and menus
    
    
• Terminology
  • local plan, sub-plan
  • rule and parameter set
  • crew categories
  • crew complement
    
    
• Manual planning
  • sorting
  • selecting
    
    
• Rave
  
  
• Rules
  • rule paramters
  • rule exception
    
    
• Reports (Rave Publisher)
  
  
• Optimization
  • start and monitor
  • controlling a solution
  • different mehods
    
    
• Objective function
  
  
• Preferential bidding
  • strict seniority
  • bid lines
  • auction
  • bid ratio
    
    
• Fairness
  
  
• Planning process
  • create sub-plan
  • load crew table, rules and parameters
  • start an optimization job
  • analyze solution
    
    
• Complicating factors
  • vertical constraints
  • training
  • recency
  • fly above/below rank
  • base variants

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set (Carmen Airlines).