Don’t Settle for Good Plans to Optimize Crew and Aircraft Utilization When You Can Easily and Inexpensively Create Great Plans

The Planning Optimization Suite makes optimizing crew and aircraft utilization easy and affordable. By evaluating millions of possible schedule combinations in minutes, Navitaire turns good plans into great plans that can easily reduce crew costs by three to five percent and dramatically increase aircraft utilization.

Low-cost, virtually maintenance-free
The Planning Optimization Suite is easy to deploy and use, runs on low-cost hardware and requires minimal support. You’ll get valuable results immediately with an unbelievably fast ROI.

Helps make good planners great
The Planning Optimization Suite can help dramatically improve the effectiveness of your planners. Instead of spending time just creating schedules, they now have blazingly fast tools at their fingertips to create multiple scenarios and solutions, analyze "what-if" situations, and select optimized combinations that can help save money and increase your efficiency. And with over 30 different selectable parameters available, planners can create optimized plans for virtually any business model and any combination of routes, crew rules and regulations.

Increases your operational efficiency
The Planning Optimization Suite works with any operations management system, so coordinating planning, maintenance, crew operations and other areas is easier and more streamlined than ever before.

Wide-ranging capabilities to cover your operations and support growth
Deploy new aircraft to best advantage, optimize with existing schedules, optimize crew pairings, rosters, bidlines and more. Navitaire can help your planning teams tackle the challenges you face each month to improve crew and aircraft utilization.

Powerful solution used around the world
The Planning Optimization Suite is the top choice of established and emerging low-cost and hybrid airlines worldwide. That’s due to its advanced optimization technology, a fully integrated rules engine, and the flexibility to optimize crew and aircraft utilization for any airline regardless of size. Just think of the possibilities for your airline.

The Planning Optimization Suite Helps Power Higher Performance and Greater Efficiency Across Your Airline

Completely modular, the Planning Optimizers solve virtually any crew optimization and aircraft utilization challenge. Use the flexible parameters to custom design options to handle your business scenarios. And put your planners to work creating schedules as well as evaluating advanced options that help save money and increase efficiency.

Aircraft Schedule Optimizer
The Aircraft Schedule Optimizer can help you use fewer crew resources and reduce costs for hotels, meals and other indirect expenses through more efficient schedules. Below are just some of the ways the Aircraft Schedule Optimizer can help you:

• Build individual flights into anonymous flying lines over multiple days
• Create multiple scenarios before committing to a schedule
• Generate "what-if" scenarios on the potential impact of changing conditions
• Automatically apply government regulations, business rules and other qualifications using an external rules engine
• Quickly identify solutions by establishing aircraft utilization values, identifying charter opportunities, and finding the right flights to cancel if aircraft must be removed
• Populate flight schedules, operational rules and cost information from a single database
• Integrate with the Pairing Optimizer to easily plan for crew to follow aircraft routings

Pairing Optimizer
Use automation to help create the lowest-cost set of crew pairings balanced with crew quality-of-life with the Pairing Optimizer. The Pairing Optimizer provides you with many benefits:

• Speed up and optimize the pairing process and quickly make updates for last-minute changes
• Enter boundaries and penalties for duty periods, deadheads, crew connections and more
• Generate pairings for combined international and domestic schedules, automatically enforcing both sets of rules, with the option of specifying additional global constraints
• Run daily, weekly or monthly pairings and verify their validity before committing to a schedule
• Support for covering flight legs to different crew complement levels in a single optimization run
• Create "what-if" scenarios to assess potential impacts of changing conditions
• Run extensive reports, including summary, pairings, detailed solutions, unassigned flight legs, errors, pairing export, station activity and aircraft routings

Roster Optimizer
Help reduce costs through improved crew utilization with the Roster Optimizer. The Roster Optimizer helps you easily plan and automatically build efficient, equitable and balanced crew rosters based on both flying and non-flying activities and a wide variety of parameters. Below are a few of the things you can do with the Roster Optimizer:

• Import crew pairings to incorporate business rules, contract commitments, government regulations, and generate ready-to-use crew rosters
• Create equitable rosters by balancing flight legs between flight crew from a pay, flight segment length or trip length standpoint. Consider up to 12 months of history in building each period’s work assignment.
• Equalize all activities assigned to crews, such as days on/off, on-call/standby, and contact days, plus base, training and annual leave to build more efficient rosters
• Develop rosters with more recovery options in the event of severe weather, sick calls or other unplanned events
• Accommodate flexible roster periods from one to 56 days, fixed, 30-day or monthly
• Support over 50 different parameters covering duty periods, rest, cost, reserves and more
• Run extensive detailed and summary reports, including equalization for eight key measures, crew rosters, open pairings, reserves and total demand excess/shortage
• Easily review optimized rosters with custom controls for sorting, filtering, and comparing roster results. Click and drag to make any final manual changes, including swapping assignments and adding activities.

Bidline Optimizer
Use the Bidline Optimizer to help automatically create generic bidlines ready for the crew bidding process. The solution offers multiple parameters for flying activities to support government regulations, crew contractual commitments and corporate business rules. The Bidline Optimizer lets you do the following:

• Use multiple, flexible parameters to build bidlines designed to accommodate seniority-based environments
• Create work schedules with a maximum number of days off, fewest trips with overnights or other desirable trip attributes
• Help achieve target crew utilization by verifying that bidlines cover the overall flying hours identified by your pairings and minimize deadheads
• Cost-effectively build both bidline-holder and reserve bidline schedules that meet minimum crew guarantee levels with optimized coverage of published flight schedules and on-call goals
• Establish minimum and maximum values for bidlines using multiple parameters for individual trip patterns and overall bidline
• Save bidline scenario results and scenario re-runs to compare and contrast multiple scenarios
• Directly input bidlines to crew bidding system without additional configuration