Carmen Academy

Introduction to Carmen Crew Assignment/PBS

Audience

This course addresses non-planners (managers, RAVE/report programmers, system administrators etc.) who are interested in a thorough introduction to the Carmen Crew Assignment and Preferential Bidding System, without going into planning process details. Planners who will use the system as a production tool should attend the course Basic Crew Assignment/PBS with Carmen.


Benefits

The course gives you an introduction to the Carmen Crew Assignment and Preferential Bidding System. After completing the course you will have a thorough understanding of the system: its features, possibilities and limitations. Special focus is on the system's handling of concepts such as preferential bidding, fairness, training etc, as well as on the system's impact of the planning process.


Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required for this course.


Course topics

  • The planning cycle

  • The crew assignment problem

  • System components
  • Manual planning
  • Automatic planning
  • Rules and reports
  • Handling of standard assignment porblems:
    • Preferential bidding
    • Vertical constraints/Qualifications
    • Base variants
    • Fairness
    • Training programs
    • Fly below rank
  • Carmen CAS/PBS and the planning process
  • Integration with other products

Duration

1 day.


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