Carmen Academy

Basic Pairing

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 Pairing for Beginners.

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

Duration

2 days.

The course is always scheduled right after the course Pairing for Beginners allowing beginners to have a complete and integrated introduction to pairing and the Carmen system.

Course Material

Copies of overhead slides, exercises with solution suggestions, and relevant manuals will be handed out at the course.

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

Schedule and fee

The course fee is EUR 1400 per person.

Contact

For registration, please send an e-mail to: [email protected]

For further information or suggestions to improvements, please contact:

Kristina Larsdotter-Lane
Manager Operation Consulting
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +46 31 720 81 42
Mobile: +46 704 20 81 42
Fax: +46 31 720 81 20