Carmen Academy

Advanced Crew Assignment/PBS APC

Audience

This course addresses expert planners with a deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Assignment and Preferential Bidding system who wants to fully understand and control APC.


Benefits

The course gives you a deep understanding of the Automatic Pairing and Crew assignment module (APC) in the Carmen Crew Assignment System. After completing the course you will be able to:
  • Control APC methods through parameters
  • Analyse APC runs in detail
  • Control features such as Route Instruction, Fly Below Rank etc.
  • Tune APC runs for maximum performance
  • Suggest changes in RAVE code for maximum performance

Prerequisites

A deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Assignment System, as achieved by at least 6 months of experience on top of the course Basic Crew Assignment/PBS.


Course topics

  • APC inside
    • The entire APC process
    • Crew-Trip plausibility matrix
    • Generation and search width

  • APC methods and parameters
    • CAS initial
    • Shift improve
    • Crew improve
    • Maximum roster
    • Training program
    • Map variables
    • APC scripts

  • APC features
    • Strict seniority
    • Route instruction
    • Fly below rank
    • Buddy bids
    • Base variants

  • Vertical constraints
    • Global constraints
    • Qualifications
    • Usage
    • Definition
    • Penalty
    • Verification
    • Pitfalls

  • Performance tuning
    • Generation limitating rules and parameters
    • Search width limitation
    • Tools to identify problems
    • Controlling CPLEX

  • Questions to APC developers

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Duration

2 days.


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 1800 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