Flight Crew
Scheduling
Crew management is one of the most complex duties in any
airline. Accounting for company and regulatory requirements can be one
of the most taxing and time consuming issues for your operations staff. Flight Manager Solutions
crew scheduling subsystem provides a
user friendly set of tools for the assignment, movement and tracking of your
crewmembers throughout your operation.
The flight crew scheduling system includes automatic calculation of flight
and duty time, predictions against regulations to determine if
problematic areas exist and alerts for certain critical areas. It also provides the ability to perform
ad-hoc compliance checks against
possible trips while utilizing existing data that will allow you to
integrate completed flight history, incomplete trips already in the
system, and additional unscheduled trips.
Scheduling Desk
The scheduling desk is the heart of the
crew scheduling and crew tracking system. Although the scheduling desk is a
multi-purpose form that allows the user to view, and add schedule items if given rights. Any item except a flight can be added here.
Flights must propagate down from your flight planning system.
Examples schedule items
include sick, vacation and other off-duty or on-duty codes. The
general layout as shown below and in the next couple of pages will be
used.
The upper left side of the form has a mini
calendar that allows you to change the date. In turn the information
shown in the 3 day, week and monthly view will correspond to the
selected date and crewmember.
The right side of the form contains
7 page
frames, each serving a different purpose. You'll notice that the first
tab is a turnover log. This log allows a user to add items and
designate their rating of importance. They can set reminders, as
well as allow the information to cross over to flight dispatchers.
This feature ascertains that the left hand always knows what the right
hand is doing.
The 3 day, 7 day and monthly views are based on the
calendar date selected, allowing for easy access to past and present
information. Using the 7 day view, a scheduler can right
click on a time bar to get basic flight data. A 2nd
click will expose the “Actual” or “Prediction” flight times for this
event. The times are divided by 24, 48 or 72 hours, 7, 30, 90 or 180
days, calendar and rolling year. It also includes landings in the last
90 days. Most times have a “/” to separate the calculations at at
departure (left side) or arrival (right side). This makes it easy to
identify whether or not a crewmember meets the regulatory requirements.
Additional
features of the scheduling desk include demographic information from their
personnel record, as well as license, passport and visa information,
plus the status of required training. All at a touch of the button
and in one simple interface.
Flight Crew Rostering
Flight crew rostering is the
art of taking your marketing departments plan, your finance departments
goals and your operations department needs to create a schedule and
series of flights that comply with regulatory and company guidelines.
Efficient resource planning, scheduling and allocation are essential for
operators who want to improve service quality and increase reactivity,
particularly when cost is a primary factor. Operators need to assign the
right resources to the right place at the right time, generating savings
while ensuring that feasible schedules meet policies and regulations.
Flight Manager Solutions
flight crew rostering program is designed to give you flexibility over
the way your rosters are generated by allowing you to control certain
calculations and limiting parameters, including limitation on hotel
usage. The system also allows you to perform one-click comparisons
of generated roster lines using our variable projection algorithms.
Once a crew roster has been generated to your likings, moving it to the
bid line control system is only a click away. The information is
then available to your crew scheduling department who can assign the
appropriate personnel to the roster. This is usually the very
first step in the crew management process.
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