First COVID, then war, then peak demand coinciding with staff shortages... When will aviation get back to 'normal'?
Or could it be that these larger disruptions are something we will need to expect and prepare for more thoroughly? Looking at the development over the past two decades, airlines today are much more often suffering severe consequences from ripple-effects in their environment; industrial action of a competitor, problems in the supply chain, fuel prices, political decisions, and so forth. Add to this the extreme weather conditions likely to become more frequent and it is obvious that many airlines need to revisit their strategies for dealing with disruptions - throughout the crew management process. It involves day-of-operation processes and systems of course, but also planning for increased robustness and recoverability.
Experience allows for planners to come up with hypothesises for what would improve robustness and recoverability in the crew management process. It may be a modified reserve or stand-by strategy, changes to crew agreements or ways to keep crew together more often. But then what? These potential improvements will need to be measured and cultivated into data that quantifies the impact on several aspects such as fatigue risk and crew wellbeing, but also cost. Now, -this is where your crew solution really has the chance to shine; with easily configured business logic and powerful optimizers, you could quickly produce what-if's that deliver the data needed for the decisions. Because, to quote W. Edwards Deming; Without data you're just another person with an opinion.
To learn more about the value of having class-leading configurability of business logic that enables powerful what-if's with optimizers, please look no further than to this document.
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