Carmen Academy

Advanced Pairing

Audience

This course addresses planners with a basic understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing system.

Benefits

The course gives you a deeper understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing system by introducing you to a variety of pairing problems and taking you through most system features. After completing the course you will be able to:

Solve problems with variable crew needs
Solve problems with crew augmentation
Solve jumper problems
Ensure similarity between different solutions
Ensure regularity in dated solutions
Use ground transports and OAG flights
Distribute production between bases
Control APC solution time and quality

Prerequisites

A good understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing system, as achieved in the course Basic Pairing.

Course topics

Varying crew need

Variable crew need
Crew augmentation
Solution strategies

Imitation

Jumpers planning
Cabin crew imitation
Imitate standard solution
Measure imitation
Control the level of imitation

Ground transports and OAG flights

Define ground transports
Filter and include ground transports
OAGs - in local plan or stand alone?
Performance consequences

Base distribution

Base constraints
Standard statistics
Pitfalls

Basic APC control

Method overview
Generation control

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 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