November 1998  
 
A    w o r d    f r o m    t h e    C E O


Per Norén, CEO

 

   

Competitive, Complex and Dynamic

Today, airlines worldwide operate in an increasingly complex, dynamic environment. Global and growing alliances, deregulation, and improved IT infrastructures create new degrees of freedom. Competitive dynamics intensify as networks are radically redesigned and schedules are changed daily.

These events pressure airlines to increase revenues and cut costs, they also leverage the importance and complexity of resource optimization in airline operations. Schedule planning, fleet assignment, aircraft routing, and crew scheduling can no longer be seen as independent processes; they are linked, and future systems made by Carmen must take advantage of these links.

When Carmen started almost 10 years ago, no airline in Europe used optimization for crew scheduling. Now, most all major European airlines use Carmen's products; in doing so, all have cut several percentage points off their crew costs. This is just the start. Intensive competition puts pressure on airlines to increase income and reduce expenses.

Optimization know-how enables airlines to lower costs raise revenues. Our mission is to become the world's leading resource optimization partner.

Carmen has during the last years provided the airline industry with the best and most unique products for crew planning. We are extremely devoted to continue with our focus on developing leading edge products, services and knowledge to our customers.

We look forward to using our knowledge to help our customers manage flexible operations at minimum costs.