Jeppesen Crew Pairing

Optimize your crew planning for increased productivity, safety

and operational stability.

With Jeppesen Crew Pairing, you can create optimized crew itineraries with a minimal cost
while maximizing productivity, safety and stability. Unparallelled flexibility makes it easy to adapt
to growth and changing business needs.

Power up your planning process.

Jeppesen Crew Pairing is ideal for airlines with
more than 1 000 crew members, but smaller
operations can benefit as well. Jeppesen Crew
Pairing is used for staffing over 6 000 000
flights globally per year, and we have clients who
currently solve up to 75 000 flights in a single
optimization process.

Maximized productivity, safety and See how Jeppesen Crew Pairing

stability. can benefit your operation.
With Jeppesen Crew Pairing, airlines can create
• Market-leading pairing optimization
optimized anonymous crew itineraries with a
engine handles multiple crew bases,
minimized cost. Jeppesen Crew Pairing enables
variable crewing, several agreements, large
operators to maximize preferred objectives such
numbers of flights and many aircraft types,
as productivity, safety and stability, using our
helping you run a complex operations with
world-leading pairing optimization engine.
ease.
When an airline starts using Jeppesen Crew
• Customizable framework lets the planner
Pairing, our experience show savings in the
easily control rules, reports, data interfaces
range of 3- 15 percent in crew costs. This
and optimization cost drivers, putting you
includes direct costs such as allowance, hotel
in control of costs.
costs and deadheads. Depending on your
• Decision support tools, such as what-if
business strategy, optimization can be used to
simulations for time-table analysis
increase productivity by covering more produc-
(retiming), crew base analysis and union
tion with the same number of crew members, or
negotiations, helps you create the most
by focusing on a more robust operation.
cost efficient schedule possible.
• Long-term budget planning enables hotel
Flexibility and decision support for forecasting and gives valuable feedback to
cost control and savings. your manpower planning process,
The system’s flexibility and powerful modeling minimizing unnecessary costs.
capabilities makes it easy to adapt to changes, • Fatigue-model integration support during
keeping the system continuously in tune with pairing optimization, to maximize flight
the current business environment, and the fast safety already in the planning phase.
optimizers makes it easy to react to operational • Best-in-class after-market offering, giving
changes such as timetable changes and agree- you the service and support you may need
ment updates. to maximize your system benefits.
In addition, Jeppesen Crew Pairing offers deci-
sion support so you can control costs, credit
time, deadhead hours, connection times and
aircraft changes. You’re always in control be-
cause Jeppesen Crew Pairing instantly com-
putes how much any change will cost.
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Crew Pairing Capabilities Highlighted

Optimization Variable Crewing and Crew Imitation

Our best-of-breed optimization engine enables Cabin crew problems with fleet mixing typically
efficient production-planning as well as powerful contain flights with varying crew need where
decision support capabilities, as the optimizer crew is qualified to operate across the different
makes it possible to rapidly test different sce- fleets. By allowing these flights to be combined
narios and control important solution properties. in pairings, more effective crew solutions can
The system’s modeling capabilities lets you be created. In Jeppesen Crew Pairing, variable
easily control the trade-off effects between cost, crew problems can be solved in a single opti-
stability and quality. mization run, generating pairings with different
The regular system releases bring new features levels of assigned crew as output.
and improved optimization performance every From a stability point of view, when cabin crew
year, making sure you will always benefit from pairings are created with Jeppesen, the flight
the latest technology advances. deck pairings can be imitated very strongly and
hence the solutions will be more stable and
Fatigue Risk Management
robust.
Jeppesen Crew Pairing considers crew fatigue
and fatigue risk when optimizing crew sched- Support and Services
ules by interfacing with scientific fatigue/alert- With Jeppesen, you get best in-class service and
ness models. support. We provide a full range of support,
For each flight, the functionality can predict including regular new system releases, dedi-
crew alertness and associated risk. The alert- cated service managers and on-site checkups,
ness and risk information is available both for where the system and processes are analyzed
the planner and to the optimizer, enabling the to ensure the optimization capabilities stay up-
airline to increase alertness levels. to-date.

Retiming
Small changes in the flight schedule can result
in significant crew-cost savings. By using the
retiming feature, crew planners can identify
changes in the flight schedule that improve
the crew pairing solution and suggest changes
to the network department. The result? More
profitable operations.

Crew Augmentation Jeppesen Crew Paring offer a user-friendly interface, a powerful

analysis tool and a versatile report generator.
If you need to add a relief crew to extend the
flight duty period, Jeppesen Crew Pairing will
recognize this and the optimizer will dynamically Depending on your chosen level of system own-
add a relief crew when creating the crew pair- ership, we can offer hosting solutions as well as
ing. The planner can take rules and penalties a remote planning setup. Following deployment,
into account, control what flight augmentation is Jeppesen maintain contact and regularly visit
allowed, as well as how much augmentation can your operation to make certain your solution
be used. meets your needs today and tomorrow.

Learn more about how we can support your operation.

For more information about Jeppesen Crew Management solutions, visit jeppesen.com/crew.
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