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- Does your base structure fit your operation?
- Can you lower your total crew cost by changing the base structure?
- Which are the best candidate bases to open or close?
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 your base structure 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 crew base
structure is co-ordinated with your operations, Carmen can compare the
effect on crew costs of various crew base scenarios. These scenarios describe
varying combinations of new and existing bases. For each scenario, the
total crew cost and optimal crew distribution is reported, for a given
flight program.
In the study, we plan anonymous crew using various
scenarios and in different time periods. All scenarios are compared to
a base line using existing crew base structures. 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 discuss crew base candidates, investigating
the most frequently visited airports and those with a strategic position
in the flight network. A preliminary plan is created with all possible
crew base candidates. After this, we try crew base candidates with good
potential individually, and in combination. We can also investigate specific
crew base candidates or combinations of crew base candidates.
We start the project with agreeing on the scope
and the goals. You explain your questions and we bring up potential problems
based on our experience 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 or cabin crew, using weekly schedules over
three time periods. This can be done for two timetables. Where applicable,
we can also investigate increasing or decreasing the difference in cabin
and cockpit crew bases. 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 how changes in specific regulations
or cost structures will influence crew distribution, investigating alternative
timetables, etc.
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If you have any questions about the Crew Base
Analysis, please contact us at [email protected]
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- Advice on how to investigate base candidates
- Cost comparisons for all scenarios
- Crew base candidates that could be added, changed or closed down
- Detailed planning scenarios
- Analysis of each scenario
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The result of a crew base analysis, with
detailed analysis for each potential base. The numbers describe the
cost impact of adding a base, redistributing crew between bases, and
closing a base. |
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- Advice on what basis to investigate
- 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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