Prerequisites
A deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing System gained through at least 6 months of experience using the system in addition to the course Advanced Pairing.
Prerequisites
A deep understanding of the Carmen Crew Pairing system gained through at least 6 months of experince using the system and by attending the courses Advanced Rave and Advanced Optimization for Pairing. Experience from implementing/ maintaining a pairing rule set is an advantage.
  
 
 
 
 
  Pairing I
 
 

Audience
This course addresses experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Pairing System. Beginners not familiar with pairing concepts should begin with the course Introduction to Pairing.

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

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

Prerequisites
Familiarity with standard pairing concepts and preferably some planning experience.

Course topics

  • Introduction to Carmen Crew Pairing
    • The graphical user interface
    • Local plans and sub-plans
    • Manual and automatic pairing construction (APC)
    • The batch viewer
    • Rules and reports

  • Create standard solutions
    • Create local plan and sub-plan
    • Build aircraft rotations
    • Add OAG flights
    • Load rules and parameters
    • Build manually - set hard locks
    • Launch APC
    • Verify solutions by reports

  • Create dated solutions
    • Roll out a standard solution
    • Fetch carry-ins
    • Include extra flights
    • Repair broken pairings
    • Publish solution

  • Basic simulation
    • Toggle rules
    • Change parameters
    • Add/Remove bases

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

Duration
2 days.

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