Audience
This course addresses experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Rostering/Preferential Bidding System. Beginners not familiar with crew rostering concepts should begin with the course Crew Rostering/PBS for Beginners.

Benefits
The course gives you a thorough introduction Carmen Crew Rostering/PBS. After completing the course you will be able to:

• Produce production rosters using Carmen Crew Rostering
• Perform simple simulations and scenario analysis
• Utilise both the manual and automatic tools

Prerequisites
Familiarity with standard crew assignment concepts and preferably some planning experience.

Course topics

• Introduction to Carmen Crew Rostering
• The graphical user interface
• Local plans and sub-plans
• Planning objects (pairings, ground duties, personal duties)
• Crew and ground duty tables
• Pre-assignments and environment
• Manual and automatic tools (APC)
• The batch viewer
• Rules and reports


• Create rosters
• Create local plan and sub-plan
• Include crew and ground duties
• Load environment plan and pre-assignments
• Load rules and parameters
• Build manually - set locks
• Launch APC
• Verify solution quality by reports
• Long term fairness


• Include PBS
• The bid entry system
• The bid table
• Bid cost function
• Measuring bid fulfilment
• Limiting cost of bid fulfilment
• Long term fairness


• Basic simulation
• Toggle rules
• Change parameters
• Modify constraints (e.g. qualifications, fairness)
• Activate "Fly below rank"

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set ("Carmen Airlines").

Duration
2 days.