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By popular demand: one more chance!
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| Late last year, we ran a successful campaign allowing operators to easily try out market-leading optimization technology for comparison with their own crew planning results. This gave operators a good chance to assess the 'gap' to what could be achieved with best-in-class algorithms should bare-bone regulation be applied. It quantified the differences in fatigue risk, crew efficiency, robustness, hotel costs, allowances - creating insights into improvement potential for closing some of that gap.
We are happy to announce that we will now take on another batch of operators (on a first-come, first-served basis). Are you perhaps 4% short on crew efficiency, whilst planning with 15% higher fatigue risk? Welcome to finding out, provided that your planning problem has fair complexity, and that you are not already a Jeppesen customer of crew planning solutions.
Up until the 5th of May, we are offering operators a free optimization run planning your own flights for one calendar month of your choice. You will receive the full pairing solution and in detail all critical KPIs reported on. You can then, by yourself and at your own pace, compare these to your own solution for that month. If you're interested, you just need to fill in this form. Welcome!
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FTL Effectiveness: Had we not hoped for more?
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Is it at all possible to measure how effective regulatory rules are, such as the rules governing work and rest time for pilots coming from EASA, FAA and the CAAC?
You are welcome to read about one of the most challenging quests we have ever taken on. Here comes chapter 4: Had we not hoped for more?
This work is pursued in collaboration with SWISS, another prominent international airline operator, a large space agency, and the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) with the intent of openly publishing the findings. However, this article series that explains the idea, the platform, the metrics, and elaborates on a few selected results, is entirely authored by Jeppesen.
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Consumed by what you can count?
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| A well-functioning fatigue safety action group (FSAG) use multiple sources assessing their operation, transforming their analysis into insights and then actions. However, it is easy to get caught up in statistics over fatigue reports and predictions from a fatigue model. All you have time for, possibly, is adjusting a few flights falling below a threshold you have set up for yourself. That approach, being consumed by what can be counted, will have a very marginal impact on the overall fatigue risk your airline is exposed to.
Instead, consider focusing on what counts; reducing your overall risk, looking at the full picture. Such efforts includes proactively working with your rosters to provide for crew influence, fair-share of risk, and actively suppressing fatigue risk throughout the crew management process - when constructing the working patterns, during optimization. You are welcome to read more about what is considered best practice in this document. Enjoy.
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Welcome Compass Cargo Airlines
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| Compass Cargo Airlines, an ambitious cargo newcomer from Bulgaria, with headquarters in Sofia, has recently decided to implement Jeppesen Concert and the Boeing Alertness Model in support of their FRM processes.
"Cargo operations are fast-paced and ever-changing in meeting up to market demands. The varying flight schedule constantly results in novel patterns of work, some of which may be quite taxing on pilots’ capabilities", says Milena Kaytazova, Safety and Security Manager, at Compass. "We have chosen to go with a comprehensive and well-proven FRM approach, selecting Jeppesen Concert and the Boeing Alertness Model. Concert will allow for detailed monitoring and trend detection as we expand our operations in size and range", she concludes.
"We are honored at being selected and are very excited to now support Compass with their fatigue risk management ambitions in a cost effective manner", says Magnus Ek, FRM Business Advisor at Jeppesen.
Concert is a self-service cloud-based analytics platform, accessible via any web browser. Concert has quickly taken the position as the leading solution for predicting and managing fatigue risk aspects within aviation and can be 'bolted on' to any crewing process in a matter of days - independent of current solution provider. For more information about Concert, please follow this link.
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Dreaming, memory-making, problem-solving: A lot happens during the most active sleep phase.
Before scientists discovered REM sleep in the 1950s, it wasn’t clear that much of anything was happening in the brain at night. Researchers today, however, understand sleep as a highly active process composed of very different types of rest - including REM, which in some ways doesn’t seem like rest at all.
Lack of sleep in general is associated with death, but the research now suggests that not getting enough REM sleep is the single strongest factor.
REM also... (Read the full article here.)
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The CrewAlert Open Integration Standard
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CrewAlert is a tool aimed at assisting crew by creating fatigue risk awareness and helping them to find strategies for risk prevention and mitigation. Contrary to the operator, who normally uses population averages, crewmembers using CrewAlert can use their own personal settings and get more accurate 'tailor-made' predictions and insights.
CrewAlert contains the Boeing Alertness Model and integrates seamlessly with apps containing rosters such as Logten, Rosterbuster, iAIMS, Flight log and Crew Lounge. But what about airlines and crew that are not using any of these? CrewAlert imports roster data on a very simple JSON format, easily built into any other solution. Please contact us here and we will share the specification. In no time, you should be able to connect it to your airlines' crewing process.
CrewAlert allows for crew and FSAGs to collect data and perform detailed modelling and what-if's using the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM). A functionality overview is available in this cheat sheet.
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Meet up with our experts:
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APR 25-26: Crew and Fleet Developer Partners Meeting (CDP), Gothenburg
MAY 22-24: AGIFORS, Santiago, Chile
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| Missed out on the previous NewsFlash? It's right here.
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