Crew Rostering

Crew Rostering is the process of assigning duty to a crew member.

Minimizing costs while
respecting crew preferences
Integrated Products
Jeppesen Crew Rostering integrates seamlessly
with other Jeppesen products, sharing data,
legality and user interface. For clients with a
complete crew system, the pairing functionality
is available together with online data from
crew tracking. Jeppesen Crew Rostering also
integrates various rostering concepts, spanning
from different ways of creating individual
rosters to the management of lines of work
(bidlines). This allows the airline to support
several rostering models for different crew
groups and provides one integrated platform
for the evaluation and implementation of
future concepts.

Optimization
Optimization tools are closely linked to
Jeppesen Rave,™ ensuring that legality and
cost structures are always synchronized with Three working windows showing rosters, incompletely assigned trips and rotations.
the latest business changes. The optimizer will The report shows the distribution of unassigned production.
produce a crew roster that respects all relevant
constraints on duty time, rest time, days
off, time zones and other similar aspects. In
addition to legality and cost structure, Jeppesen
Crew Rostering can manage constraints such as
different crew bases, different crew agreements,
various training aspects, fly below rank,
maintaining and using qualifications, imitating
previous rosters and various bid models.

The Roster Editor

The user interface allows for quick analysis of
crew rosters as well as manual creation and
adjustment of rosters. Crew members and
pairings can be sorted or selected using any
criteria. Colors and objects can be used to
identify important aspects of the crew rosters
such as a crew being scheduled close to
minimum rest, low credit pairings, granted or
denied bids and crew soon requires a line-
check. The user interface also contains many Two working windows showing different views. In working window 1 all inexperienced crew
powerful commands for the manual editing of members are displayed. In working window 2 details of the route training program for two
trainees are displayed. (Trainees are marked with green, instructors with purple and training
individual rosters. flights with a yellow line.)

Preferential Bidding
For more information about preferential bidding, please see separate
product sheet.
Working with Scenarios
Guessing the consequences of a contractual Jeppesen Remote Planning
change can prove to be very costly. A With the Jeppesen Remote Planning service, the customer can realize
minimal change in rest time or overtime cost savings from highly optimized planning very quickly. Our experience is
structures may result in surprising effects. that introducing Jeppesen Crew Pairing and Jeppesen Crew Rostering
The combination of Jeppesen Rave and will generate savings in the magnitude of 3 to 15 percent of total crew
the optimizers provides a very efficient way costs for our clients.
of making detailed simulations. Scenarios
containing various data, rules or pairing As an alternative to a full scale implementation Jeppesen is able
programs can be easily compared. Scenarios to offer Jeppesen Crew Pairing and Jeppesen Crew Rostering in a
used in production planning can evaluate the Remote Planning mode. Pairings and rosters are produced at Jeppesen
impact of changes in flight departures, find and delivered to our Remote Planning clients in accordance with a
the most efficient trade-off between quality predefined time schedule.
and overtime costs and evaluate the combined
efficiency of various pairing programs.

Measurability
Using Jeppesen Rave Publisher you can create
any specific analysis report. Exactly the same Fatigue Risk Management
costs and legality definitions used in the roster Commercial pilots face stress such as long duty days, frequent
editor and the optimizer can be used in the scheduling changes and disruptions to the body’s clock, also known
customized reports, ensuring that consistent as the circadian rhythm. It is based on physiological and behavioural
key performance indicators (KPIs) are used in processes, such as sleep/wake, activity, digestion and hormone
planning and in follow-up reporting. Relevant secretion, that oscillate on an approximately 24-hour basis.
KPIs could be credit time, required overtime,
deadhead hours and standby hours. In the interest of enhancing aviation safety, we have begun integrating
bio-mathematical models of fatigue into flight crew scheduling software.
The work is aimed at establishing strategies for reducing and controlling
Equal Distribution predicted fatigue in the planning phase.
Individual bids are often distributed in order of
seniority; however, at times it may be desirable
to distribute special properties equally between
all crew members. Examples could be free
weekends, attractive layover stations, overtime
payment, annual block time, and the total
number of assigned standby days. You can
define any number of properties or activities
to be distributed between different crew
members. You can also spread duties with
certain properties between crew members in a
specific group. For example, you can distribute
unattractive standby blocks between standby
crew. Equal distribution can be combined with
preferential bidding in seniority order.

The analysis report shows how annual block time is distributed so as not to exceed the
annual limit. The graph shows the distribution in the monthly plan.
Questions and Answers
I understand how Jeppesen Crew Pairing can reduce costs We use bidlines, but plan to move to individual preferences
by producing effective pairings, but how can Jeppesen Crew for one crew category. Can the two models work together?
Rostering save more money? Jeppesen Crew Rostering contains functionality for bidlines
With a complex agreement structure and additional quality as well as for individual rostering. Both models can be
and stability criteria it is very hard to find the most efficient managed in the same system. A small group of the entire crew
roster combinations manually. Good optimization can create community can evaluate preferential bidding and it is even
room for improvement. This can be used to reduce the total possible to mix bid models within the same crew group. For
costs, increase stability, increase the roster quality or reduce example, by allowing the most junior crew members to move
time-to-market. So far, the average initial saving is about to preferential bidding, while the more senior crew members
four percent. Substantially greater savings can be made by stay with bidlines.
changing the process to take full advantage of the flexibility
and predictability that Jeppesen Crew Rostering brings. This Can I receive feedback from the day-of-operation process
can be achieved by trading agreement changes for increased to make the planning more robust?
crew influence or by increasing the flexibility by publishing
Yes, it is possible to load a solution from day of operation and
free-day patterns, duty periods and the detailed flight numbers
display it with the originally published roster to analyze what
at different times.
actually happened.

The crew would like to have greater influence over their Can I use Jeppesen Crew Rostering to achieve a more
rosters. How can I still guarantee efficiency? precise forecast?
You can perform an initial planning scenario without any crew
With Jeppesen Crew Rostering you can plan any period,
preferences. This will provide a baseline for crew costs and
using both real production pairings, approximate standard
solution stability that the following optimization sessions with
pairings or even dummy duties. This makes it possible to
crew preferences must respect. It is possible for an individual
carry out preliminary planning for long periods to achieve a
client to define exactly what cost increase or stability decrease
better understanding of how the available resources match the
is acceptable in order to receive an even higher ratio of
coming needs.
granted crew bids. It is often feasible to raise crew satisfaction
while maintaining costs and stability levels.

For senior crew the strict order must remain. Is it possible

to award bids differently for junior crew?
You can use different assignment principles for various crew
groups. For crew members with many service years the
assignment of bids can remain very strict. For crew members
with very few years of service it is possible to let seniority have
an impact, but not be totally dominant.

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