Due to the on-going Covid-19 crisis, many airlines have quickly implemented quite dramatic changes to their crew planning processes recently, managing to do what many would consider almost impossible in the given time frame. Examples range from rule changes, enhanced teaming of pilots and cabin crew, to publication of crew rosters one week at a time instead of monthly.
As a result of working with many of these operators, and recognising similarities between them, Jeppesen has launched what we call the HALO Initiative. HALO was first presented to the industry in a webinar in late June and the initiative consolidates the work done into easily installed plug-ins to the Jeppesen Crew solution suite.
The areas initially in focus for HALO, being recurring patterns, are dealing with destination restrictions, exposure and improved management of high volatility in timetables. At this point, HALO introduces the following packages for Jeppesen Crew Pairing and Rostering users:
Destination Restrictions: rules for how crew are allowed to combine destinations in their rosters. Example: 'Crew that visit station X, cannot go to station Y for N number of days'
Timetable analysis: Quickly understanding the changes imposed by an updated timetable, supporting taking the right planning decisions. Provides overview and detailed analysis for understanding the difference between pairing solutions, and builds on the Jeppesen Calibration functionality.
Reporting: This package gives the means to directly produce reports in Excel format for efficient communication with other stakeholders not having access to Jeppesen systems.
Crew Teaming: minimizing exposure for crew to others, while building operationally robust pairings and rosters.
The HALO packages are available to Jeppesen crew solution customers through the normal service/support organization and have been built to support both manual planning and analysis, but also fully automatic optimization runs that simultaneously consider all other objectives (including fatigue risk using BAM).
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