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Edelweiss extends analytics capabilities
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| Edelweiss is Switzerland’s leading leisure travel airline and is based at Zurich Airport. As a sister company of Swiss International Air Lines and a member of the Lufthansa Group, Edelweiss fly to 72 dream destinations in 32 countries throughout the world. Edelweiss is already a Jeppesen FRM customer and user of the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM) for crew planning. A new agreement now extends this usage to also include Jeppesen Concert, for advanced analytics, monitoring and follow-up.
"Jeppesen Concert will be used for quantification of predicted fatigue risk levels, as well as many other important crew-related indicators that reflect how well we are doing in each step of the crewing process", says Alex Doggweiler, Head of Crew Planning, at Edelweiss. "We are rather excited to join the Concert user community and look forward to the collaboration and interaction with other operators", he concludes.
Concert is a self-service cloud-based analytics platform, accessible via any web browser. Concert has quickly taken the position as one of the leading tools for predicting fatigue risk aspects within aviation and can be 'bolted on' to any crewing process in a matter of days - independent of current solution supplier. For more information about Concert, please follow this link.
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Is seven hours of sleep enough?
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You’ve surely heard the saying. ‘You spend up to one-third of your life asleep’. Now resist the temptation to say ‘think how many more episodes of that TV series I could cram in’, let’s instead think about what sleep actually does for us. No matter your age or circumstances, sleep fulfils many important physical and psychological functions. These include... (read the full article here).
Sleep Cycle, with millions of users worldwide, has built up what is likely to be the world’s richest repository with data reflecting global sleep habits. They have many interesting articles about sleep that are worth checking out on their website.
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CAPI, openly available to everyone
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There are many benefits from using standards. Standards help suppliers and customers reduce costs, anticipate technical requirements, and increase productive and innovative efficiency.
Did you know that there is a standard in place for communicating the information needed for alertness/fatigue predictions between an application and a bio-mathematical model?
Well, now you do. That standard is called the Common Alertness Prediction Interface (CAPI) and has been around since 2009. CAPI was designed from the onset to support high-speed communication between crew planning optimizers and fatigue models. It was first used in production for planning airline crew already back in 2011 and has since then been put to use at some 70 different airlines world-wide.
CAPI makes it straightforward to add a fatigue assessment capability to any application that holds pairing or roster data and is in use in solutions running on both Linux, Windows, MacOS and iOS.
We are excited to announce that CAPI is now available to airlines, rail operators, fatigue model vendors and application developers free of charge! The increasing alignment around this standard benefits the industry by making development faster and less expensive, but also creates much needed interchangeability between fatigue models. Adding a model to an application, switching from model A to B, or exchanging a crew planning solution while keeping the existing model, all becomes much more straightforward.
You are elcome to contact us here for more information and for receiving the specification.
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FTL Effectiveness: How much lower risk? At what cost?
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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?
Join us in a series of articles, here in the FRM News Flash, where we will step by step take on quantifying the safety and cost differences between rule sets. We will initially focus our efforts on the current EASA FTLs, comparing them to the former ones, the EASA Subpart Q. We will do so by building realistic working patterns for crew governed by these rules, for a huge number of airline fleets, using actual flight schedules both before and after COVID, and perform the planning with real production systems. This will be followed by suggesting and applying a crisp definition of FTL effectiveness - to finally arrive at answering: ‘How much lower risk did the new rules deliver?’, and ‘At what cost to the industry?'. Our hope with this work is to complement on-going efforts to investigate FTL effectiveness, hopefully even pointing out the individual rules that are most in need of improvement.
Welcome to join in and read about one of the most challenging quests we have ever taken on. Here comes chapter 1: A bold idea. Enjoy.
This work is pursued in collaboration with SWISS, one more 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, explaining the idea, the platform, the metrics, and elaborating on a few selected results, is entirely authored by Jeppesen.
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The much-anticipated Crew & Fleet Optimization Workshop (a.k.a. COW), was recently held in Gothenburg, Sweden, this September. The two-day workshop gathers optimization and operational research experts across the different Boeing product portfolios. This year, the event was held at Auktionsverket Kulturarena in the city centre and the program contained a wide range of topics reporting on recent advances and on-going research and development projects. We asked Waldemar Kocjan, Senior Crew Optimization Expert, to refect over the highlights of COW this year:
"What stood out to me this year was the breadth, with which we operate within Boeing. Operational Research and optimization technology is really put into practical use in so many different disciplines and parts of the organisation these days", Waldemar says. "It's very rewarding being part of organizing this event. Coming together and sharing information, truly fuels our passion for problem solving, which assists us in continuing to push the boundaries in creating value for our operators.", he adds.
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Meet up with our experts:
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APR 25-26: Crew and Fleet Developer Partners Meeting (CDP), Gothenburg
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| Missed out on the previous NewsFlash? It's right here.
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