Audience
This course addresses beginners not familiar with crew rostering and preferential bidding concepts. Experienced planners with no or little knowledge of the Carmen Crew Rostering system should begin with the course Rostering I.

Prerequisites
None

Duration
1 day

Course goals
This course gives you an introduction to standard crew rostering and preferential bidding concepts. After completing the course you will have a thorough understanding of:

• complete planning process
• planning concepts
• crew rostering problem objective and complexity
• preferential bidding
• complicating factors.

Course topics

• Overview of Carmen products
  • Tail Assignment
  • Crew Pairing
  • Crew Rostering
  • Crew Tracking
    
    
• Planning concepts
  • roster
  • trip
  • crew position
    
    
• Rules and objective
  
  
• Objective function
  
  
• Preferential bidding
  • strict seniority
  • bid lines
  • auction
  • bid ratio
    
    
• Complicating factors
  • vertical constraints
  • training
  • recence- maintain qualifications
  • fly below/above rank

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