Airline Products

Paper planning boards are a thing of the past - Carmen is your future

The amount of information processed by an airline's planning department is immense, to say the least. Still, a large amount of crew planning is completely manual.

All products from Carmen Systems share a common bond - they are educationally designed and user-friendly. They give you a complete view over the entire planning process - right on your computer screen. The planning cycle takes less time, is more current and easier to adapt to changing circumstances.

Carmen solves complex planning problems and helps you on the way to a more effective, simpler and more flexible planning process.

Carmen's pairing construction increases your productivity

Carmen Pairing is your tool for creating, optimizing, and maintaining crew pairings. The goal is to man all flights while minimizing the total number of working days.

Carmen Pairing gives you performance. The system is loaded with funtionality to deal with the most complex and difficult aspects of pairing construction. It produces the optimum operational solutions for pairing big fleets with many crew bases and different base availability for the crew categories. You can minimize the number of operational crew changes by creating solutions for different crew categories simultaneously. Another sophisticated feature is the possibility to specify base constraints on a day-by-day basis. If a new crew base is phased in, the optimizer can create a monthly solution that increases productivity at this base throughout the month.

Carmen Pairing allows you to simplify and enrich planning work while designing the optimum crew pairings. You can simulate, analyze and compare different situations to find the optimal solution for each scenario. The system is both user-friendly and cost-effective, but the benefits are more than just financial. Carmen Pairing offers many resource-saving functions, e.g. performs efficiency calculations and presents every imaginable statistic.

The user-friendly design gives the planner a flexible, complete view over the different scheduling phases. Now you can save money while improving working conditions at the same time. And with Carmen Pairing, you're always �up-to-date�, because the system works according to the current situations and conditions.

Crew Assignment optimizes pairing assignments

Flight crews are expensive. And the actual flight time is just a part of their costly working time. Ground activities such as training, simulator time, stand-by, medical check-ups etc., must also be considered.

Carmen Crew Assignment is a powerful tool for increasing fairness in working conditions for crew members. You get the most out of your work-force, and your company saves money. Add to that increased planning flexibility, and you've got a winning combination for everyone concerned.

Preferential Bidding - personally tailored to your personnel

In Carmen Preferential Bidding, the flight crews can, via their own PC, enter in every conceivable wish regarding destinations, days off, working hours, pairing length, etc. The system then distributes the number of fulfilled requests fairly and evenly over the work force, while taking into consideration your company's policies on seniority.

We as well as many system manufacturers try, with varying degrees of success, to solve similar problems. The difference is that we guarantee a high number of fulfilled requests with our Preferential Bidding system.