Originally Posted by
TFAYD
the sad part is that the “automated” crew scheduling system by pretty much any other carrier is some 3 decades old Sabre solution.
there simply isn’t enough money to be made to attract some serious innovation.
The Sabre CT suite has been continually updated by new owner CAE and runs plenty of operations around the country (and world) with no carrier in it’s history coming anywhere close to the catastrophic loss of crew visibility that has beset WN.
Other existing CMS options that run airlines today, also without such catastrophic failures in their history:
AIMS
Lufthansa Systems
Jeppesen CTE
New CMS suites that have been developed in the past 5 years:
NavBlue CMS
ELP CMS
CAE Crew Manager
There are off the shelf solutions available in the market that could have been implemented at relatively low cost in a 12-24 month project plan at any point over the past half decade. The decision to NOT make a move should be as scrutinized as Ed spending hundreds of millions in capital on stock buybacks and pushing pilots with time left on the clock out the door during the worst labor contraction potentially in our industry’s history.