TPAC Crew is a fully integrated crew management and crew control system, capable of supporting crew planning and operations processes. It provides capabilities for crew pairing and rostering, crew tracking and crew data management.
In conjunction with the AirPAC fleet operations system, TPAC Crew provides operations controllers complete picture of the operation, enabling fast turnaround on changes and better solutions.
Pairing building and maintenance
Manually create pairings
Optional integration with TPAC Pairing optimizer for automatic pairing generation
Roster building and maintenance
Manually create rosters
Optional integration with TPAC Rostering Optimizer for automatic roster generation
On the day crew tracking
Live pairing and roster display
Automatic problem detection
Pairing and roster maintenance
Web-based crew portal, enabling crew members to
Sign on and off
Viewing planned and actual rosters
Bidding and preference specification
Receive Notifications
Request allocation swaps, leave, etc.
Crew data management
Crew member details, skills and qualifications
Training, leave and day off assignment
Crew notification management
Crew time & attendance
Reporting
KPI analysis on and after the day
Configurable reporting functionality
Lower Deployment Costs By combining fleet and crew operations into one simple and easy to use package, the total cost of ownership to the airline is much lower, saving on operations personnel, training and maintenance and hardware
Lower Operational Costs By planning a combined fleet and crew solution, the airline can further lower the operating costs by considering both crew and fleet when handling disruptions.
Advanced Optimization Integration with advanced fleet recovery, pairing and rostering optimizers to further maximize resource usage while minimizing costs.
Accommodate Future Growth By utilizing world-class optimization techniques by minimizing number of crew required for a schedule
Planning for the future A fully scalable platform means TPAC Crew can grow as the airline does.
Integrated Crew Pairing and Roster Management
Ability to seamlessly move from planning to operations phases
Rosters and pairings can be repaired on the day
Handling of crew leave, training, ground duty and other special assignments throughout the process
Integrated Pairing Generation
In addition to manual creation and editing of crew pairings, TPAC Crew integrates with the optional TPAC Pairing Optimizer component to provide optimized crew pairings (also known as COPs or patterns) for a given problem. TPAC Pairing Optimizer is capable of producing lowest-cost pairings with respect to rule-defined objectives that respect all relevant legality constraints.
Integrated Roster Optimization
In addition to manual creation and editing of crew rosters, TPAC Crew integrates with the optional TPAC Rostering Optimizer component to provide optimized crew rosters. TPAC Rostering Optimizer produces a set of crew rosters that will ensure the airline is crewed optimally according to factors such as fairness, crew availability, crew preferences and legality rules. By automating this process the airline can plan rosters close to the flight day ensuring a minimum cost.
Automatic problem detection
Crew duty and operating time violations
Minimum rest violations
Connection time violations
Sick crew
Fleet problems (e.g.. connection time violations due to delayed flights)
Qualification mismatches
Recency violations
Other user-defined legality and desirability rules
All rules managed using C-Rules Rule Management System.
TPAC Crew is a tiered architecture, with separate layers client, server and database functionality. The client applications, providing the application GUI, runs on individual PCs or workstations. The server and database run on one or more servers, and support server redundancy and automatic failover. This provides extremely high up-time even in the event of hardware failure.
Oracle database connectivity
J2EE Security
UNIX/Linux back end for stability, availability and performance
Multi-tier client-server for performance and scalability
Supported platforms for CrewPAC are described below.
Further Information
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