Carmen Academy

Basic Crew Assigment/PBS

Audience

This course addresses experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Assignment/Preferential Bidding System. Beginners not familiar with crew assignment concepts should begin with the course Crew Assignment/PBS for Beginners.


Benefits

The course gives you a thorough introduction Carmen Crew Assignment/PBS. After completing the course you will be able to:
  • Produce production rosters using Carmen Crew Assignment
  • Perform simple simulations and scenario analysis
  • Utilise both the manual and automatic tools

Prerequisites

Familiarity with standard crew assignment concepts and preferably some planning experience.


Course topics

  • Introduction to Carmen Crew Assignment
    • The graphical user interface
    • Local plans and sub-plans
    • Planning objects (pairings, ground duties, personal duties)
    • Crew and ground duty tables
    • Pre-assignments and environment
    • Manual and automatic tools (APC)
    • The batch viewer
    • Rules and reports

  • Create rosters
    • Create local plan and sub-plan
    • Include crew and ground duties
    • Load environment plan and pre-assignments
    • Load rules and parameters
    • Build manually - set locks
    • Launch APC
    • Verify solution quality by reports
    • Long term fairness

  • Include PBS
    • The bid entry system
    • The bid table
    • Bid cost function
    • Measuring bid fulfilment
    • Limiting cost of bid fulfilment
    • Long term fairness

  • Basic simulation
    • Toggle rules
    • Change parameters
    • Modify constraints (e.g. qualifications, fairness)
    • Activate "Fly below rank"

Duration

2 days.

The course is always scheduled right after the course Crew Assignment/PBS for Beginners allowing beginners to have a complete and integrated introduction to crew assignment 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 1400 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