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- What changes to your crew agreement would improve your operation?
- What are the rules that limit your operational capacity the most?
- How much can a specific change reduce overall costs?
A change of just one per cent in crew productivity
represents seven figure savings or costs for a midsized airline’s operations.
With extensive experience and unique tools Carmen can advise on how to
change rules and how to rapidly make expert evaluations and simulate operational
modifications. This enables you to make decisions based on facts.
To give you an idea of how well your current crew
agreement is co-ordinated with operations, Carmen can compare various
agreement scenarios.
The most important result will be your understanding
of the relative difference in costs based on industrial regulations compared
with crew agreements. This indicates the saving or cost of changing the
existing agreements. In the study we will also discuss with you what kind
of agreement changes you can strive for.
In the study, we plan anonymous crew using various
scenarios and in different time periods. All change scenarios are compared
to a base line, e.g. the existing industrial regulations or your current
union agreement. This ensures that the final comparisons will be independent
of the planning tools used today.
We use Carmen Crew Pairing, the same tool used
by many of the world’s leading transportation companies for the technical
aspect of the study.
We start the project with agreeing on the scope
and the goals. You explain your questions and we bring up potential problems
in the current agreement structure, based on our experiences from the
airline industry. Following this we set up the system and maintain close
contact with your staff to perform the analysis. We plan for cockpit and/or
cabin crew, using weekly schedules over three time periods. We can also
investigate how crew agreements are obstacles to efficient co-planning
of cabin, cockpit, fleet and/or regions. If more appropriate, daily or
monthly planning can also be carried out.
The basic analysis can be expanded to cover even
more. It is possible to investigate any number of regulation changes or
even entirely different agreement structures, alternative quality criteria
and cost structures, timetable revisions, etc.
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If you have any questions about the Crew Agreement
Analysis, please contact us at [email protected]
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- Cost comparisons for all scenarios
- Advice on potential regulation changes
- Detailed planning scenarios
- Analysis of each scenario
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The difference between operational costs
based on current industrial regulations, two scenarios with minor
agreement changes and the current crew agreements. |
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- Advice on what rules to change
- Advice on how to change the rules
- Experience based on similar projects in the airline industry
- Report on cost difference between crew base scenarios
- Normally within 1 month from receipt of data
- An extended scope may affect the delivery schedule
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- Timetables (one or two) and required time periods (1)
- Today’s crew data (required distribution of crew per duty base, in duty days or block hours)
- Aircraft rotations for each timetable (2)
- Industrial regulations
- Crew agreements
- Cost structure (major cost drivers such as daily crew costs, credit time, etc) (2)
- Major stability criteria (minimum crew connection times, standard delay buffers, etc) (2)
(1) Can also be extracted from standard OAG.
(2) Can be simulated, if information is unavailable.
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