Sabre AirCrews Suite

The Sabre® AirCrews® Crew Management Suite offers an integrated and comprehensive solution that supports the end-to-end crew management needs of an airline. The suite addresses all phases of crew management operations from long-term crew resource planning through day-of-operations crew tracking and recovery, ensuring efficient deployment of crew at minimum cost while maintaining flight reliability and schedule integrity.

Airlines that take advantage of the extensive features and functions delivered by the AirCrews suite find that by employing an optimal crew management process, crew operation costs can be reduced by up to 10%. An effective process also helps reduce the number of flight cancellations and delays, which enhances customer satisfaction and prevents lost revenue.

These AirCrews products are described in this section:

Sabre® AirCrews® Disruption Control
Sabre® AirCrews® Crew Connection
Sabre® AirCrews® Leave Manager
Sabre® AirCrews® Operations Manager
Sabre® AirCrews® Pairing Optimizer
Sabre® AirCrews® Resource Manager
Sabre® AirCrews® Roster Optimizer

Operations Monitoring

Sabre® AirCrews® Operations Manager provides real-time operational monitoring capabilities that enable crew operations personnel to accurately keep track of crew and flight operations. By storing vital information in a central database, Operations Manager delivers speedy access to critical data needed to make immediate decisions. In addition, a number of productivity-enhancing tools accelerate the roster development process to help ensure on-time publication.

Resource Planning

Sabre® AirCrews® Resource Manager provides crew planners with the tools to easily generate efficient crew resource plans for up to two years in advance. Flying and reserve needs, training requirements, and vacation and leave requests are some of the many inputs used to generate resource forecasts. Crew shortfall or surplus information is accurately calculated by fleet, rank or base and can be aggregated at daily, weekly or monthly levels. Decision-support capabilities enable crew planners to develop efficient resource plans and determine training and leave schedules that ensure adequate crew availability while minimizing total crew manpower requirements and costs.

Optimized Rostering

Sabre® AirCrews® Roster Optimizer provides crew schedulers with an easy-to-use tool to automatically generate efficient crew rosters that achieve business goals while meeting crew needs. The optimization algorithm in Roster Optimizer supports equitable work assignments based on fairness criteria, crew preferences and desirable roster profile attributes. Users can perform multiple what-if scenarios and analyze the impact of various parameters to arrive at the optimal crew roster.

Training and Venue Management

Sabre® AirCrews® Operations Manager helps planners build a curriculum that leads crewmembers through the various courses and simulator training required to reach a certain desired level. Using pertinent information stored in the central database, planners can quickly schedule simulator or ground training and meetings, and contract out venues when unused to generate additional revenues.

Leave Management and Vacation Tracking

Sabre® AirCrews® Leave Manager provides crew planners with the necessary tools to automatically generate and award annual leave and vacation, as well as track and assign other long-term, ad hoc leave. The annual leave and vacation award process enables the automatic generation of annual leave ballots that correspond with the estimated manpower planning requirements so that leave slots can be assigned during periods of lower crew demand for operational support. If needed, the award of annual leave can be based upon a point-based fairness scheme that can be tailored to ensure crews are rotated across desirable leave periods.

Pairing Optimization

Sabre® AirCrews® Pairing Optimizer offers crew planners the necessary tools to generate legal and efficient crew pairings that achieve an airline’s desired business goals while minimizing the costs associated with the deployment of crews. Crew planners have full control of the solution-generation process and can drive the system to gener ate pairings that best meet the needs of the business, while maintaining crew quality of life. Scenario management capabilities enable crew planners to perform what-if analyses and provide support for planning activities. In addition, Pairing Optimizer accommodates a variety of different schedule types and airline requirements, from regional carriers to large international flag carriers.

Day-of-Operations Recovery

Incorporating world-renowned research and airline intelligence with proven airline industry savvy, Sabre® AirCrews® Disruption Control helps an airline overcome crew schedule disruptions quickly by developing sophisticated recovery solutions. Designed with the assistance of a global airline design council and Sabre Labs, a team of leading operations research experts, Disruption Control enables crew sched ulers to easily create an optimized cost-effective and efficient recovery plan, including personalized pairing recovery solutions for individual crewmembers.

A single day of disruption can result in enormous costs for an airline, regardless of size or type of operation. By implementing a qualified solution in a short amount of time, airlines can lessen the economical impact of unexpected costs and prevent revenue loss.

Internet-Enabled Communications

Sabre® AirCrews® Crew Connection delivers easy, global access to real-time information via the Internet while enabling crew management personnel to receive crew input during the roster planning and generation process. Crews can directly access personal and roster-related information and forward change requests. System automation lets crews easily complete routine changes such as duty swaps, trip trades and enter preference and bid requests.

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