Originally Posted by
TrojanCMH
Another thing to add is the trip/paring construction is huge with PBS. Efficient trips are everything. You get more days off for the line holder, more reserves because more of the scheduled flights are covered by line holders thus making more opportunities to drop a trip due to the reserve grid being green. Hopefully management lets the scheduling committee have some say in the pairing construction and (crossing my fingers) hopefully not every pairing is built to the minimum rig.
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Unfortunately the number one parameter for the optimizer (from what I was told) is to "limit soft time," and not to build efficient pairings. Apparently Crew Planning doesn't care about efficiency. Not sure how this will enter the mix with PBS, but if that soft time limit parameter remains at #1, how will the end result look? Will a majority of the trips default to the rigs, or will the rigs be such that the optimizer will need to be coded different? I don't know and look to the ones that have worked under a PBS system. All I do know is that if Crew Planning can save a $ over efficiency (sometimes even safety ala +1 redeye legs) then they will do that.