A significant milestone was passed last month. On November 17, at 06:51 CET, the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM) was used by Jeppesen customers for predicting alertness for five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) flight assignments as part of their crew management processes!
After nearly a decade after first introduction, BAM is still the only commercially available fatigue model that can be used in real-time with crew planning optimizers while generating and optimizing crew pairings and rosters, guiding the results away from risk. While the optimizers are running, they produce a huge amount of potential flight sequences that are evaluated and ’priced’ with BAM incorporated into the objective function -- in part explaining the extensive usage. The ’5 trillion milestone’ was suitably celebrated in a ceremony at Jeppesen Gothenburg with a plaque commemorating the event.
"We are extremely proud to now pass this milestone, but also over the exponential growth in BAM usage over the past few years and the trust our customers instill in Jeppesen", says David Karlsson, Mathematical Modelling Expert and Technology Lead.
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