Carmen Academy

Crew Assignment/PBS for beginners

Audience

This course addresses beginners not familiar with crew assignment and preferential bidding concepts. Experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Assignment System should begin with the course Basic Crew Assignment/PBS with Carmen.


Benefits

The course gives you an introduction to standard crew assignment and preferential bidding concepts. After completing the course you will have a thorough understanding of:
  • The entire planning cycle - from timetable planning to tracking
  • Standard planning concepts and nomenclature
  • The objective of the crew assignment problem
  • The complexity of the crew assignment problem
  • The effect of crew assignment rules
  • The difference between legality and quality rules
  • The challenge of satisfying crew bids
  • Further complicating factors (qualifications, fairness, training programs, fly below rank, etc.)
  • The various problem types and their characteristics (flight deck, cabin, long haul, short haul etc.)
  • Different approaches to solving the crew assignment problem

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required for this course.


Course topics

  • The planning cycle
    • Timetable planning
    • Fleet assignment
    • Pairing planning
    • Crew Assignment and preferential bidding
    • Roster maintenance
    • Tracking / Crew control

  • The basic crew assignment problem
    • Input and output
    • The combinatorial explosion
    • Objective
    • Cost aspects (real costs and penalties)
    • Legality and quality rules

  • Preferential bidding
    • What is preferential bidding?
    • Bidding concepts
      • Satisfaction concept
      • Auction bidding
      • Strict seniority
      • Other concepts
    • Bid types
    • Bidding vs. costs and fairness

  • Complicating factors
    • Qualifications
    • Base variants
    • Fairness requirements
    • Training programs
    • Fly below rank

  • Problem instanses and their characteristics
    • Long-haul vs. short-haul
    • Flight deck vs. cabin crew

Duration

1 day.

The course is always scheduled right before the course Basic Crew Assignment/PBS with Carmen allowing beginners to have a complete and integrated introduction to crew assignment/preferential bidding and the Carmen system.


Course Material

Copies of overhead slides, exercises with solution suggestions, and relevant manuals will be handed out at the course.

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


Schedule and fee

The course fee is EUR 700 per person.


Contact

For registration, please send an e-mail to: [email protected]

For further information or suggestions to improvements, please contact:

Kristina Larsdotter-Lane
Manager Operation Consulting
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +46 31 720 81 42
Mobile: +46 704 20 81 42
Fax: +46 31 720 81 20