Audience
This course addresses beginners not familiar with pairing concepts. Experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Pairing System should begin with the course Basic Crew Pairing.

Benefits
The course gives you an introduction to standard pairing concepts. After completing the course you will have a thorough understanding of:

• The entire planning cycle - from timetable planning to Operation Control
• Standard planning concepts and nomenclature
• The objective of the pairing problem
• The complexity of the pairing problem
• The effect of pairing rules
• The difference between legality and quality rules
• The various problem types and their characteristics (flight deck, cabin, long haul, short haul etc.)
• Different approaches to solving the pairing problem

Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required for this course.

Course topics

• The complete planning process


• The basic pairing problem
• Input and output
• The combinatorial explosion
• Objective
• Cost aspects (real costs and penalties)
• Legality and quality rules


• Complicating factors
• Variable crew need
• Augmentation
• Other airlines
• Ground transports, taxi flights etc.
• Imitation
• Regularity
• Below Rank


• Problem instanses and their characteristics
• Long-haul vs. short-haul
• Flight deck vs. cabin crew


• Overall solution strategies
• Daily approach
• Standard week approach
• Dated mode

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

Duration
1 day.